Slave laws in the southern colonies in the 1600s
a. established rules that required slave owners to treat enslaved workers well.
b. defined an enslaved person as someone who could be bought and sold.
c. established rules that placed strict limits on slavery in the colonies.
d. required slave owners to free all enslaved workers after a set number of years.

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.

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