The racial beliefs of most white Americans in the last decades of the eighteenth century were characterized by their
A) greater respect for white property rights than for black American's right to personal liberty.
B) confidence that slaves were docile children who would never revolt.
C) growing desire for the ending of slavery by voluntary manumission.
D) continuing faith that slavery was a stagnant and declining institution.
Answer: A) greater respect for white property rights than for black American's right to personal liberty.
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