SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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False
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True
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -[Under English law a child received his or her status from his father. This Virginia colonial law law of December 1662 made a child of an enslaved mother was also a slave for life.]
Detailed explanation-2: -Religion. Responses to Enslavement. Freedom & Emancipation. Virginia enacts a law of hereditary slavery meaning that a child born to an enslaved mother inherits her slave status.
Detailed explanation-3: -Enslaved people were regarded and treated as property with little to no rights. In many colonies, enslaved people could not testify in a court of law, own guns, gather in large groups, or go out at night.
Detailed explanation-4: -Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.