Question

The colonists in the New World used enslaved African people as labor because

A) Native Americans were better able to escape and hide than enslaved Africans.

B) African people had greater resistance to European diseases than Native Americans

C) the colonists' plantations grew labor-intensive crops.

D) All of the choices are correct.

Answer 1

D

Step-by-step explanation:

A. Native Americans were familiar with the terrirtory.

B. African people had been interacting with Europeans through trade for centuries and therefore had immunity to European diseases.

C. True. Cash crops like cotton, tobacco, rice and indigo were very labor intensive.