According to laws in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake,
A) black men were not permitted to marry white women but black women could marry white men.
B) free blacks had the right to sue and testify in court.
C) free blacks were not permitted to serve in the militia unless they signed a loyalty oath.
D) the sale of any married slave was prohibited.
E) the children of enslaved women were free; the status of enslavement was not inherited.

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According to laws in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake, free blacks had the right to sue and testify in court. Choice A is incorrect because interracial marriage was prohibited entirely. Choice C is partially correct as free blacks were prohibited from serving in the militia, but there is no mention of a loyalty oath. Choice D is incorrect as married slaves could be sold. Choice E is also incorrect as the children of enslaved women inherited their mother's status of enslavement, meaning they were also enslaved.

According to Laws in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake