How did many Europeans justify their enslavement of Africans?

A. by promising to release them after ten years of servitude

B. they said slaves would have a better life in the Americas

C. by granting land to all slaves once they reached the Americas

D. by believing in religious ideas that supported the enslavement of non-Christian people

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Roland Barrera

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How did many Europeans justify their enslavement of Africans?

A. by promising to release them after ten years of servitude

B. they said slaves would have a better life in the Americas

C. by granting land to all slaves once they reached the Americas

D. by believing in religious ideas that supported the enslavement of non-Christian people

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Aimee Frey · Answer 1

D

that if a slave was non-Christian, then slaveholders were civilizing and Christianizing" them for their own benefit. And slaveholders were upholding their God-given position as Christians to enslave pagans and infidels. It was all a part of God's plan.