Question

By the 1700s, what about slavery had changed?

Enslaved people could be emancipated.
All enslaved people were of African descent.
Enslaved people were considered employees.
All enslaved people were separated from family.

Answer 1

All enslaved people were of African descent.

Explanation: Over the 1600s into the 1700s slavery in the colonies became increasingly racialized—enslaved labor was drawn overwhelmingly from Africa and passed down hereditarily—whereas earlier the labor force included indentured Europeans and Native Americans. (The other choices are not accurate: people were treated as property, families were not universally separated, and manumission was possible but not the defining change.)