Assertion:. The Portuguese, Dutch, Spaniards, and British captured African natives and forcefully transported them to the newly discovered Americas.

Reasoning: Slave trade was a lucrative business.

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

The correct answer is Option 1: Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

Assertion:. The Portuguese, Dutch, Spaniards, and British captured African natives and forcefully transported them to the newly discovered Americas. This statement is true. European colonial powers were heavily involved in the transatlantic slave trade and transported enslaved Africans to work on plantations in the Americas.

Reasoning: Slave trade was a lucrative business. This statement is also true because the slave trade generated huge profits for European traders and colonial economies.

The Reason correctly explains the Assertion, as the economic profitability of the slave trade was a major reason behind the large-scale forced transportation of African people.

NCERT: The Portuguese, Dutch, Spaniards, and British captured African natives and forcefully transported them to the newly discovered Americas for their labour in the plantations. Slave trade was a lucrative business for more than two hundred years till it was abolished in Denmark in 1792, Great Britain in 1807 and United States in 1808.