Author Question: All of the following were true in the South except (a) Slaves had little or no status in courts ... (Read 39 times)

serike · **on:** Jun 30, 2018

All of the following were true in the South except

(a) Slaves had little or no status in courts of law.
(b) Slave marriages (when there was a ceremony) were not legal, binding contracts.
(c) Slaves' property was legally their own.
(d) Slaves' own children were not theirs to control; slaves were property.

Question 2

The reminiscences of two famous people who were born into slavery, Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, include all of the following except

(a) The common custom among slave owners was to ensure that small children of slaves
had the nurturing of both parents until they reached good working age.
(b) Their early years were not very different from thousands of other slave children.
(c) Their fathers were white men.
(d) They saw their mothers infrequently, only a few times in their lives, or only sometimes
in the early morning hours before their mothers went to work or late at night.