Which commodity drove the African slave trade in Brazil and the West Indies during the seventeenth century?

A) tobacco
B) indigo
C) silver
D) cotton
E) sugar

Sugar

A sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrate found in many plants, extensively used as a sweetener in food and beverages.

Slave Trade

The buying, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves, specifically the transatlantic slave trade which forcibly brought Africans to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

West Indies

A region in the Caribbean Sea consisting of numerous islands that were crucial during the colonial period for their agricultural production, especially sugar.