Identify the correct statements.
(A) The practice of the barter system is alive in Jon Beel Mela, Guwahati in India.
(B) Slave trade was an outcome of European colonialism.
(C) Slave trade was abolished in Denmark in 1808.
(D) U.S.A. was the first country to abolish slave trade.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A) and (B) only
(A) The practice of the barter system is alive in Jon Beel Mela, Guwahati in India. Correct. Jon Beel Mela is held every January at Jagiroad, 35 km from Guwahati, and it is possibly the only fair in India where the barter system is still alive.
(B) Slave trade was an outcome of European colonialism. Correct. With European colonialism from the fifteenth century, a new form of trade emerged, the slave trade: Africans were captured and taken to the Americas to work in plantations.
(C) Slave trade was abolished in Denmark in 1808. Incorrect. Denmark abolished it in 1792. The year 1808 belongs to the United States; Great Britain abolished it in 1807.
(D) U.S.A. was the first country to abolish slave trade. Incorrect. Of the three, the U.S.A. was the last (1808). Denmark (1792) came first, then Great Britain (1807).
NCERT (2025-26): “History of International Trade … Fifteenth century onwards, the European colonialism began and along with trade of exotic commodities, a new form of trade emerged which was called slave trade. 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.”
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