That only Africans<span> and people of </span>African<span> descent </span>were<span> subject to </span>slavery. Even free people of color—a term for non-slaves<span> of </span>African<span> or mixed </span>African-European<span> descent—</span>were<span> subject to </span>special<span> laws restricting the property they could own, whom they could marry, and what clothes they could wear.</span>