Which of the Following Statements About the Hardening of Racial

question 26

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the hardening of racial restrictions and slave codes in English North America is LEAST accurate?

• A)Slave codes protected the interests of masters by declaring that the children of enslaved mothers would themselves be slaves.
• B)Because the English government developed slave policies for its empire,slave codes were consistent throughout the colonies.
• C)As slave codes hardened,the justification for slavery shifted from religion to race.
• D)As the seventeenth century progressed,freedom was increasingly seen as a natural state for whites and enslavement a natural state for blacks.

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