Analyze the passage from South Carolina’s Slave Code of 1740.
V. And it shall be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any slave who shall be out of the house or plantation where such slave shall live, or shall be usually employed, or without some whiter person in company with such slave, shall refuse to submit or undergo the examination of any white person, it shall be lawful for any such white person to pursue, apprehend, and moderately correct such slave; and if any such slave shall assault and [strike] such white person, such slave may be lawfully killed.1
In one to two paragraphs, explain this passage and give your opinion. Why was such a law accepted at the time? Use information from the lesson to back up your statements.