Question

What was one reason that southern states passed laws after 1800 to discourage manumission?

(1 point)

Northern leaders pressured southerners to liberate enslaved people.

Northern whites had sold their slaves to southerners before slavery was banned in the North.

Southern whites feared that freed blacks would seek revenge for past treatment as slaves.

Southern states needed an inexpensive labor force to work in southern factories.

Answer 1

Southern whites feared that freed blacks would seek revenge for past treatment as slaves. They worried a free Black population might inspire revolts and threaten the racial social order, so states passed laws to limit manumission.