Why didn't free southern blacks who bought their own wives or children usually free them?
A) owning slaves gave a free black the right to vote
B) owning slaves gave free blacks a measure of prestige with southern whites
C) the family members they freed would have to leave the state
D) because as slaves they were safer from slave patrols than were free blacks
The growth of enslavement of Africans by Europeans can be traced to
A) the demand for laborers in the Portuguese sugar plantations of the Madeira Islands
B) treaties between European colonial powers and central African kingdoms promising arms in exchange for slaves
C) the demand for Egyptian cotton whose production was more labor-intensive than any European crop
D) the elaborate racist ideologies crafted by 18th century European intelligentsia