Question

All of the following are true statements about the slave population in the South by 1750 EXCEPT

A. slaves made up close to 80% of Virginia's population.
B. slaves outnumbered Europeans in South Carolina 2 to 1.
C. slaves made up around 30% of the population of Georgia and Maryland.
D. the lower southern colonies were losing their slave population to the upper southern colonies.

Answer 1

The Correct Answer is D

Step-by-step explanation:

Facts of the Southern colonies population by 1750 are such as:

• Due to the shortage of labor in the South, they started the use of Slaves from Africa by 1750 there were some couple of million slaves.
• Slavery was legal in the Southern colonies
• The children born in a slave family became slaves themselves.
• In Southern colonies sometimes families were broken apart and sold them to other plantation owners.
• In Southern colonies, people who are enslaved are often beaten and abused.