Describe the reasons the General Assembly was motivated to create slave codes, and explain how this document provides evidence of the creation of a race-based class society in the colony

It was fear of rebellion what led each colony of white settlers to pass a series of laws restricting slaves' behaviors, known as the slave codes, which defined the status of slaves and the rights and responsibilities of slave owners.

In every slave code, skin color was fundamental, any amount of African heritage established the race of a person as black, with little regard as to whether the person was slave or free.