In the middle of the seventeenth century, a West African slave transported by British ships across the Atlantic was most likely to end up in

A) Barbados.
B) Maryland.
C) Virginia.
D) Louisiana.
E) Canada.

Barbados was the largest British slave colony in the Caribbean during the 17th century, with an estimated 388,000 Africans brought there to work on sugarcane plantations. Maryland, Virginia, and Louisiana were also slave-holding colonies/states, but Barbados was the most significant destination for African slaves transported by British ships. Canada did not have a significant slave population during this time period.