Which of the following is not the about the Portuguese slave trade?

A.The slave trade is accelerated when the Portuguese began growing sugar in Brazil

B.the Spanish hired Portuguese merchants to transport African slaves to the new world

C. It began with Portuguese merchants buying slaves from the king of Benin

D. Other people’s along the west coast of Africa began to sell captives to the Portuguese

E. The Portuguese continued the trans-Saharan slave trade to the Muslim world