Question

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

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

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

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.

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

Answer 1

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

Reason: Disease killed many Indigenous people and those who survived often could escape or resist more easily on familiar land, making Indigenous labor less reliable. Europeans therefore turned increasingly to African slaves, who were farther from home, less susceptible to Old World diseases, and harder to escape to.