Why did the Spanish increasingly turn to enslaved Africans in their American colonies?
- Acheck_circle
Native populations were decimated by disease, and Africans had partial immunity to European diseases
- B
African workers came voluntarily under contracts negotiated by West African coastal kingdoms
- C
African workers were paid better wages than European indentured servants on Caribbean plantations
- D
European indentured servants refused to migrate to the tropical climates of the Spanish Indies
Explanation
Combined with the inability of Native populations to sustain large-scale forced labor due to disease, the transatlantic slave trade expanded.