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What is one important reason why Europeans decided to rely on Africans rather than indigenous Americans for labor on colonial plantations? Hi

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The American Indians knew the land and were too rebellious, so they frequently escaped and rebelled. They were also dying from diseases, so there weren't enough of them to keep a plantation running.

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Africans had stronger immunity to European diseases than indigenous Americans.

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