How did many Europeans justify their enslavement of Africans?
A. by promising to release them after ten years of servitude
B. they said slaves would have a better life in the Americas
C. by granting land to all slaves once they reached the Americas
D. by believing in religious ideas that supported the enslavement of non-Christian people

Respuesta :

D

that if a slave was non-Christian, then slaveholders were civilizing and Christianizing” them for their own benefit. And slaveholders were upholding their God-given position as Christians to enslave pagans and infidels. It was all a part of God’s plan.