What impact did religion have on slavery throughout most of the eighteenth century in New England?

Question

a. Because of their religious convictions, white New Englanders implemented abolitionist policies which would end slavery in their region by the middle of the eighteenth century.
b. Although they held fervently to their religious beliefs, white New Englanders did not allow those beliefs to interfere with the profits to be made from slavery and the slave trade.
c. Despite their religious convictions, white New Englanders imposed slave codes and punishments on their slaves which, on the whole, were more brutal than what was common farther South.
d. Because of their religious convictions, white New Englanders refused to participate in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, though they grudgingly accepted the existence of slavery within their own colonies.

Answer 1

b. Although they held fervently to their religious beliefs, white New Englanders did not allow those beliefs to interfere with the profits to be made from slavery and the slave trade.