What did the “black codes” of the early English colonies do? A. They ended the inter-colonial slave code. B. They prevented Engl
ish colonist from abusing their African slaves. C. They equally distributed the African slave population between the northern and southern colonies. D. They stripped African slaves of their human rights and allow English colonist to see them as less than human.
The “Black Codes” of the early English colonies was formed to prevent English colonists from abusing their slaves.
Option: (A)
<u>Explanation:</u>
Even though the code was formed to protect slaves from masters and masters from defiant slaves, it provided far more protection to masters than to slave.
This code also denied slaves of basic rights that are guaranteed under English Common Law.
These codes effectively established the idea of white supremacy into the law.
These codes were formed to segregate white colonists from black slaves.
