The laws that established an official system of slavery in the American colonies

A) stated that children could not be born into slavery.

B) allowed enslaved people to go free if they had been indentured.

C) made it legal to keep enslaved people for their entire lives.

D) required that a person's enslavement end after a period of time.

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Cody Mejia

8 June, 16:37

The laws that established an official system of slavery in the American colonies

A) stated that children could not be born into slavery.

B) allowed enslaved people to go free if they had been indentured.

C) made it legal to keep enslaved people for their entire lives.

D) required that a person's enslavement end after a period of time.

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Leonard Rowland · Answer 1

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C) made it legal to keep enslaved people for their entire lives.

It was legal, for the system of slavery sustained in the British colonies - and also in the Spanish and Portuguese, as in the case of Brazil - to maintain a person as a slave throughout his life. There was no time limit, children were also enslaved - daughters of slaves.

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