Question

Which of the following best explains why Europeans began to forcefully enslave Africans rather than Indigenous people?(1 point)
Responses

Indigenous people who had been enslaved often tried to run away or died while enslaved.
Indigenous people who had been enslaved often tried to run away or died while enslaved.

Europeans did not think they could control Indigenous people very well.
Europeans did not think they could control Indigenous people very well.

The Europeans did not successfully conquer the Indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere.
The Europeans did not successfully conquer the Indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere.

Europeans believed that when Indigenous people converted to Christianity, they could no longer be enslaved.

Answer 1

Indigenous people who had been enslaved often tried to run away or died while enslaved.

This best explains the shift: disease, high mortality, and frequent escape/resistance made Indigenous labor unreliable, so Europeans turned increasingly to African slaves who were less susceptible to Old World diseases and harder to escape to.