Which Statement Is True About Slave Childhood

question 29

Multiple Choice

Which statement is true about slave childhood?

• A) Slave children, since they were highly valued by the master, were well taken care of. Fewer slave children died than white children.
• B) Slave children rarely played with white children, since the master would not allow it.
• C) Slave childhood was short; slave children were usually doing adult work between the ages of 8 and 12.
• D) Slave children generally could only rely on their own mother and father for help growing up.

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Definitions:

Randomized Block Design

An experimental design that involves dividing subjects into blocks and then randomly applying different treatments within each block to control for variance among blocks.

Blocks Mean Square

A measure used in the analysis of variance (ANOVA) to assess the variability within groups or blocks of data.

Sum of the Squared Deviations

A measure used in statistics, representing the total of the squared differences between each observation in a dataset and the dataset's mean.

Blocks Variation

The variation among experimental units that is accounted for by grouping them into blocks based on certain characteristics to reduce confounding effects.