What false idea did Europeans promote to defend the practice of chattel slavery?

That African climates were too harsh for Europeans to work in.

The racist belief that Africans were not equal to them.

That the trade was a temporary measure to help colonial economies grow.

The claim that they were protecting Africans from regional conflicts.

'Chattel slavery' is a term used to describe a system where...

workers are paid very low wages for their labor.

people work for a set number of years to earn their freedom.

enslaved people are considered legal property.

landowners protect workers in exchange for their service.

To learn new farming techniques for their own countries.

To establish peaceful diplomatic ties with African leaders.

To supply a large workforce for their new colonies in the Americas.

To find new trade routes to Asia for the spice trade.