Use the excerpt from The General Public Statutory Law and Public Local Law of the State of Maryland to answer the question.
The excerpt demonstrates a key difference between indentured servitude and race slavery by noting that indentured
Be it therefore enacted, . . . That from and after the end of this present session of assembly, no negro or mulatto slave, free negro, or mulatto born of a white woman, during his time of servitude by law, or any Indian slave, or free Indian natives, of this or the neighbouring provinces, be admitted and received as good and valid evidence in law, in any matter or thing whatsoever depending before any court of record, or before any magistrate within this province, wherein any Christian white person is concerned.
. . . Where other sufficient evidence is wanting against any negro or mulatto slaves, free negro, or mulatto born of a white woman, during their servitude by law, or against any Indian native of this or the neighbouring provinces, in such a case the testimony of any negro or mulatto slave, free negro, mulatto born of a white woman, or Indian native of this or the neighbouring provinces, many be heard and received as evidence, according to the discretion of the several courts of record, or magistrate, before whom such a matter or thing against such negro, mulatto slave, &c. shall depend, provided such evidence or testimony do not extend to the depriving them, or any of them, of life or member.
. . . And, whereas in the law relating to servants and slaves there is no punishment or penalties laid upon negroes or mulattoes intermarrying with any white person, Be it therefore enacted, by and with the authority, advice and consent aforesaid, That if any free negro or mulatto intermarry with any white woman, or if any white many shall intermarry with any negro or mulatto woman, such negro or mulatto shall become a slave during life, excepting mulattoes born of white women, who for such intermarriage shall only become servants for seven years, to be disposed of as the justices of the county court where such marriage so happens shall think fit, to be applied by them towards the support of a public school within the said county, and any white many or white woman who shall intermarry as aforesaid with any negro or mulatto, such white man or white woman shall become servants during the term of seven years, and shall be disposed of by the justices as aforesaid,...
A. servants could break their terms of service while slaves could not
B. servitude was regulated by law, but slavery was not
C. servitude kept families together while slavery separated most
D. servants retained certain rights and freedoms denied slaves
