Question

If a slave holder had 20 or more slaves , how could he use this an exemption?

A. An exemption from habeas corpus
B. An exemption from the draft
C. An exemption from paying the war tax

Answer 1

B

Step-by-step explanation:

Second Conscription Act, which included a piece of legislation that would become known as the “Twenty Negro Law.” It exempted from military service one white overseer for every 20 enslaved people on a plantation