Why did the Spanish begin using enslaved Africans instead of enslaved American Indians to work on plantations?

Plantation owners could trade goods for Africans but not American Indians.

European diseases had killed much of the American Indian population.

There was too much resistance among American Indians.

American Indians fled to the north and became fur traders for the French.

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Madelynn Haas

9 August, 05:58

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Elisha Rocha · Answer 1

Definitely B., European diseases had killed much of the American Indian population--over 90% to be exact.