Slave laws in the southern colonies in the 1600s "<span>b.defined an enslaved person as someone who could be bought and sold" This rule was set in place to fight against some owners who attempted to set their slaves free prematurely. </span>
The correct answer is B) defined an enslaved person as someone who could be bought and sold.
Slave laws in the southern colonies in the 1600s defined an enslaved person as someone who could be bought and sold.
Southern laws in America were so harsh on slaves. Let's have in mind that the southern economy depended so much on slaves. That is why southern people were against abolitionism. Slaves had to work long hours in the large southern plantations to produce the kind of crops needed for trade and to export to Europe. Slaves in the south lived difficult lives and were not considered to be persons, but property.
They suffered a loss of steady trade in fur, meat, and grain with European traders. They suffered negative consequences because they lost both their land and their allies.
It was mostly Christianity that helped to unite the people of Europe during the Middle Ages, but it should be noted that this was also a very divisive and oftentimes violent religion as well.
