3. Document Project 3: Tobacco and Slaves

Quiz for Document 3.5 Virginia Slave Laws, 1662 and 1667

Quiz for Document 3.5: Virginia Slave Laws, 1662 and 1667

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. In the Virginia Slave Laws, what explanation is given for why Christian slaves can be baptized but still remain slaves?

Slave owners did not expect many slaves to convert and be baptized.

Christian slaves were more obedient.

Baptism made slave owners feel less guilty about slavery.

Slave masters could more easily convert slave children to Christianity.

2. Why did Virginia determine that slavery passed through the mother’s line?

Because then slave owners’ children with their slave mistresses would be born slaves

Because women were considered subservient, so slavery was a natural extension of servitude

Because slavery was tied to a female genetic trait that was inherited

Because women were easier to control than men, so slavery was tied to females

3. To whom did the law give credit for the religion of slaves?

The overseers

Slave owners

Church leaders

Slave women

4. What does the 1667 Virginia Slave Laws reveal about the colonists’ views on slavery and religion?

Most slave owners were not Christians.

Slave owners preferred to have Christian slaves.

Some slave owners did not like the idea of owning Christian slaves.

Slaves resisted converting to Christianity on plantations.

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