Multiple Choice
What statement accurately depicts the legal status of people of African descent in the Chesapeake prior to 1660?
A) Blacks had rights equal to those of whites.
B) Blacks were forbidden all access to the courts.
C) Blacks were already rigidly defined as enslaved people.
D) Blacks' rights were ambiguous, allowing some Africans to become landowners with servants or slaves.
E) It was law that only Africans and no English people could work in the tobacco fields.
Correct Answer:
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