AFRAS 170A Midterm: Afras Midterm Practice Test
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Africans arrive in the chesapeake: the early status of blacks in north america under the british colonies was initially unfree, but they were not slaves. What was the main exception to this rule: white slaves maintained all their legal rights. Whites were too racist to adopt any african ways: the great awakening was a large religious revival in the british colonies in the mid- to late eighteenth century. Black people in colonial north america, 1526-1763 chapter 3 a. slave codes were milder and not generally enforced. Most african americans in louisiana lived there. b. Black people in colonial north america, 1526-1763 chapter 3: why did the quakers take the lead in abolitionism, quaker ideology had long stressed principles of brotherhood of man and non-violence. About half of the white population in the south owned slaves. b. It was always for the purpose of freeing the slaves they bought. b.
