Why did farmers lose their independence to shopkeepers and merchants? a. they lost much of their crops to floods and disease. b. they bought more goods than they could afford. c. they bought less goods from them. d. they bought more goods that were very cheap.

Item 14 which statement is an accurate description of the transatlantic slave trade? africans were brought to the americas in a three-part system of triangular trade. slaves went from europe to africa, and then to the americas in a circle of trade. native american slaves were sent to europe in exchange for sugar and molasses. africans traded tobacco and furs for captured arabs whom they sold into slavery.