To protect white people from the prospect of a slave insurrection and keep people of African descent in slavery under control
Who is called a slave?
- A person who is legally another's property and has no personal or property rights.
- A person who is compelled against their will to work for someone else.
As the population of African Americans increased in the colonies, white settlers had a real concern that a bloody uprising may occur in their own community. Each colony enacted a number of laws limiting slave behavior out of fear of a slave insurrection.
To prevent slave uprisings, the slave codes were implemented. The laws prohibited slaves, among other things, from gathering in large groups and from leaving their master's property without a written pass. Every state that practiced slavery had its own laws and body of precedents.
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