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question 2
how did english colonists ensure that slavery would be handed down from one generation to the next?
○ by making it illegal for an owner to inherit slaves
○ by forcing the children of indentured servants to continue to pay off the debt the parents accrued
○ by basing one’s status, as a free person or as a slave, on the status of one’s mother
○ by forcing african slaves to have children with native american slaves

question 3
how did europeans gain access to african slaves?
○ by trading with coastal africans who enslaved other africans
○ by sending armed expeditions tasked with capturing/kidnapping africans
○ by purchasing them from asian slave traders near mozambique
○ by exchanging native american slaves for african slaves in the seaports of spain and portugal

Explanation:

Question 2

• Option 1: Making it illegal to inherit slaves would not pass down slavery, so this is incorrect.
• Option 2: Indentured servants' children paying debts is about indentured servitude, not chattel slavery's hereditary aspect.
• Option 3: The "partus sequitur ventrem" principle (status based on mother's status) meant children of enslaved mothers were slaves, ensuring hereditary slavery. This matches how colonists ensured slavery was passed down.
• Option 4: Forcing inter - ethnic slave relationships was not the main way to ensure hereditary slavery.

• Option 1: Europeans mainly traded with coastal African kingdoms and merchants who had enslaved other Africans (through warfare, raids, etc.). This was the primary method of acquiring African slaves.
• Option 2: Sending large - scale armed expeditions to capture Africans was not the main method; most slaves were obtained through trade with Africans.
• Option 3: There was no major Asian slave trade network supplying Africans to Europeans near Mozambique in this context.
• Option 4: Exchanging Native American slaves for African slaves in Spanish/Portuguese seaports was not the primary way Europeans accessed African slaves.

Answer:

C. By basing one's status, as a free person or as a slave, on the status of one's mother

Question 3