HELP!! BYU AP World History!

Now read this document and answer the same questions. First, what is the main idea of the document (not just the subject but what the author wants the audience to think about it)? Second, what are the historical situation, point of view, audience, and purpose of this document, and how does each affect your understanding of the document?

“You . ... tell me that you want no slave-trading in your domains, because this trade is depopulating your country. ... The Portuguese there, on the contrary tell me how vast the Congo is, and how it is so thickly populated that it seems as if no slave has ever left.”
– From King João III to King Afonso, 1529, quoted in Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost, New York: Mariner Books, 1998, p. 14.

The main idea is the core, or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage. It explains the intent and establishes the flow of the section. The core notion may be expressed explicitly or obliquely.

Between 10 million and 12 million Black Africans were carried to the Americas as slaves as a result of the transatlantic slave trade, a component of the global slave trade, between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Slaves from Africa were transported to the Americas as slaves, while goods such as sugar, tobacco, and other goods were sent from the Americas to Europe. The transatlantic slave trade was the second of three stages in the so-called triangular trade.

In conclusion, it should be noted that the main idea that can be seen in the excerpt is about slavery. It was about how Africans were used as slaves on American lands.

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