I think its B. Ethan Allen
The white people started retaliating. The slaves were punished for little things, and the punishments were death or beatings. They also restricted slaves' activities, including their ability to assemble, grow their own food, earn any money, or learn to read. By creating fear in the slave population they enslaved them not only physically but mentally.
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It would be federal, because federal rules and laws are what ALL of the states and citizens have to follow, or else there will be a punishment.