In her essay, Abbey provides an overview of an article she found in her research. She uses non-specific phrasing and details to present only the main ideas of the article. Abbey is the article.

The correct answer is - summarizing.

Explanation:

Summarization is referred to taking the important part of the document or article or work and creating a condensed version by key points without losing the main idea or original sense of the work.

Summarization can be understood by the example of a short story of one or two paragraphs of a long book of that story. Abbey in this question taking the details to show only the main idea of the article which is the summarization of the article.

explanation:

with the profits from the european sales, merchants purchased europe's manufactured  goods, including tools and weapons. then the merchants shipped those manufactured  goods, along with the  american  sugar and rum, to west africa where they were bartered for  slaves.

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