“I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved.”

--Bartolome de las Casas, 1552

How was the French relationship with Native Americans different from the one illustrated by the excerpt above?

-They avoided contact with Native Americans because of the threat of disease.

-They formed strategic alliances with Native Americans in order to control the fur trade.

-They enslaved Native Americans in order to extract resources from the land.

-They were uninterested in the religious conversion of Native Americans.