Spain's Las Siete Partidas, a Series of Laws Touching on Slavery

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Multiple Choice

Spain's Las Siete Partidas, a series of laws touching on slavery:

• A) strongly influenced the English as they devised their own laws about slavery.
• B) was strictly enforced in Mexico, Cuba, and other Spanish colonies until those areas achieved independence.
• C) required masters to free female slaves on their twenty-first birthdays.
• D) gave slaves some opportunities to claim rights under the law in Spain's American empire.
• E) did not apply to Spanish possessions in the New World.

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