Which of these events during the 1600s and 1700s led to the development of slavery in the Caribbean?

Disease brought by Europeans killed many Indigenous people in the West Indies, reducing the population available for forced labor. European colonists then brought enslaved Africans to work on plantations, helping slavery develop in the Caribbean. The arrival of Columbus came earlier and began European contact, but the deaths from disease created the labor shortage that drove the expansion of slavery.

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