【单选题】For centuries the most valuable of African resources for Europeans were the slaves, but these could be obtained at coastal ports, without any need for going deep inland. Slavery had been an establishe...
A.
the Europeans were innocent in the trade of African slaves.
B.
slavery in Africa and in the West was the same in nature.
C.
the view in the most recent studies of enslavement is baseless.
D.
slaves had been treated even more cruelly in the African tradition.