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Which of the following is the main reason why colonial authorities wrote slave codes?

They did not want slaves leaving plantations without permission.

They feared slave revolts.

They feared antislavery laws.

They did not want enslaved people to read and write.

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Actually they feared Slave riots

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They did not want enslaved people to read and write, it restricted the from activities

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