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Davideckstein7

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Slavery had always been a part of human history, but how was it different by the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
 
  a. There was increased cruelty.
  b. Only males had been used in early slave societies.
  c. Slaves had always been able to achieve freedom.
  d. Early slavery did not involve Africans.
  e. It shifted from societies with slaves to slave societies.

Question 2

The growth of abolitionism in England was fueled by
 
  a. England's Catholic heritage.
  b. fear of slave revolts.
  c. Enlightenment thinking and England's proud history of its Bill of Rights.
  d. the rising costs of owning and maintaining slaves.
  e. new legislation in Parliament banning slavery in the colonies.



matt95

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Answer to Question 1

e

Answer to Question 2

c



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