Question

From “ The Atlantic Slave Trade”

Why can you conclude that European colonists most likely decline to import their own countrymen to work on new world plantations ?

A. There were not enough Europeans able to travel to the New World

B. It would have been too expensive to pay Europeans

C. Europeans did not know how to grow and harvest New World crops.

D. Native labors refuse to work with European colonist.

Answer 1

Answer: B

Step-by-step explanation:

European colonists most likely declined to import their own countrymen to work on new world plantations because the labor was viewed as too risky and expensive. Additionally, the colonists wanted to maintain power and control over the labor force, which was easier to do with an enslaved African population rather than free European labor.