Question

What was the slave code ? Please provide an explanation, using full sentences

Answer 1

Answer:

Slave code, in U.S. history, any of the set of rules based on the concept that enslaved persons were property, not persons.

Explanation:

The slave codes were laws relating to slavery and enslaved people, specifically regarding the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas. Most slave codes were concerned with the rights and duties of free people in regards to enslaved people.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

Without protest, the slaves did not recognize their fate. Many incidents of Revolt, also in colonial times, were known to Americans. These uprisings have not been limited to the South. In fact, one of the first examples of a Revolt slave was in Manhattan in 1712. There was a justifiable fear on the part of the white colonists that a violent uprising might occur in one's own neighborhood as African Americans in the colonies grew greater and greater in number.