The African captives on slave ships had a “completely unknown future.” Based on the text, a primary reason for this was that
A. those who were captured never returned to their homelands to share their experience.
B. the journey from Africa to North America could take eight weeks or more.
C. the captives had not grown up near the ocean and did not know how they would survive.
D. they came from different ethnic groups or tribes and did not know one another.
