In colonial America, American Indians were not enslaved. According to the Noel hypothesis, this was because ______.

A. there was little power differential between colonists and the American Indians
B. there was no competition between colonists and American Indians
C. the colonists felt no ethnocentrism against American Indians
D. the colonists were, by and large, opposed to slavery


Answer: A

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