Question

The Twenty Negro Law

a)
replaced the three-fifths rule as the method of counting slaves for representation purposes.
b)
gave a draft exemption for one white man on each plantation that owned at least twenty slaves.
c)
provided that no more than twenty Negroes per week could be liberated by the Union Army.
d)
assigned free blacks and fugitive slaves to white military units in groups of twenty or more.
e) required each plantation to sent twenty Negroes to help the army.

Answer 1

The correct answer is b) gave a draft exemtion for one white man on each plantation that owned at least twenty slaves.