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2025 Civics Test · Question 75 of 128
What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?
En español: ¿Qué grupo de personas fue capturado y vendido como esclavos? — ver en español
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Accepted answers (USCIS M-1778)
- Africans
- People from Africa
Why this is the answerAfricans, taken by force and sold. It took a civil war and the 13th Amendment to end it, which is why this question sits next to those.
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