How did the white political and social elite of Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas respond to the issue of how to determine the status of mixed-race children?
A) They automatically classified these children as slaves, regardless of the gender identity of the mother.
B) They considered these children of mixed-race parents to be slaves only if the mother was white.
C) They exempted a child of mixed race from slavery, if the father of this child was a European slave-owner.
D) They made stringent political and social efforts to prohibit sexual relations between white women and males of other races.
Answer: D
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