According to Laws in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

question 41

Multiple Choice

According to laws in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake:

• A) black men were not permitted to marry white women but black women could marry white men.
• B) free blacks had the right to sue and testify in court.
• C) free blacks were not permitted to serve in the militia unless they signed a loyalty oath.
• D) the sale of any married slave was prohibited.

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