What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

Why this is the answer

Africans, or people from Africa; either wording is accepted. The question is about the slave trade, and the answer names where the people came from. Other European countries with colonies in the Americas took people from Africa and sold them as slaves, and millions were forced onto ships bound for North and South America. The first group of enslaved Africans was brought to Jamestown in 1619. As the colony grew, settlers spread out to raise tobacco and, later, cotton. Those crops sold well in England, but the colonists did not have enough people to work the farms. USCIS's newer study material also uses the term "enslaved person," meaning someone forced to work with no freedom, and it describes enslaved Africans being forced to work on farms in terrible conditions. By 1700 large numbers of Africans were being brought in. Men, women and children were taken against their will, families were often split apart at the moment of sale, and the people sold worked without pay or basic rights, mostly on farms but in many other jobs as well. The contradiction is plain: a nation founded on individual freedom held people in bondage, and that tension became one of the major causes of the Civil War. Slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment, ratified on December 6, 1865, which forbids slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States except as punishment for a crime. In the interview, one word is enough. Two slips are easy to make. One is answering "slaves," which only repeats the question back. The other is mixing this question up with the one right before it, about who lived in America before the Europeans arrived; that answer is American Indians, a different people with a different history. Keep the order straight: Native Americans were already here, and Africans were brought here by force.