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

Aslaves made up close to 80% of Virginia's population.
Bslaves outnumbered Europeans in South Carolina 2 to 1.
Cslaves made up around 30% of the population of Georgia and Maryland.
Dthe lower southern colonies were losing their slave population to the upper southern colonies.

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Answer:

The Correct Answer is D

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.