How Did Justifications for Slavery Change from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth

question 52

Multiple Choice

How did justifications for slavery change from the fifteenth to eighteenth century?

• A)Arguments supporting slavery increasingly relied on economic justifications of the superiority of slave labor.
• B)Arguments supporting slavery drew increasingly on the need to civilize the savage Africans and less on ideas of race.
• C)Arguments supporting slavery began to focus more on science and nature and less on religion.
• D)Arguments supporting slavery emphasized the political needs of empires rather than cultural or religious issues.

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