It is public opinion and knowledge that no end of deception is practised and a thousand acts of robbery and violence are committed in the course of bartering and carrying off Negroes from their country and bringing them to the Indies and to Spain. . . . Since the Portuguese and Spaniards pay so much for a Negro, they go out to hunt one another without the pretext of a war, as if they were deer; even the very Ethiopians, who are different, being induced to do so by the profit derived. . . . They embark four and five hundred of them in a boat which, sometimes, is not a cargo boat. The very stench is enough to kill most of them, and, indeed, very many dies. The wonder is that twenty per cent of them are not lost.
-Source: Fray Tomas de Mercado, Spanish Dominican Friar, 1587
The excerpt is best understood as a response to which of the following historical developments?
Choose 1
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A
the Atlantic slave trade

B
the encomienda system

C
the Pueblo Revolt

D
the consumer revolution