The law made many rash decisions in place of the families and how they should be handled. In a book that was written, the author raises questions that are very significant to the understanding of where these lawmakers were coming from. They questioned how a slave owner were to properly demand all the efforts of his slaves yet that slave was obligated to his or her family. They also questioned how a slave owner is supposed to have full obedience of the child slave yet that child is under the protection of his or her parents.( FIND BOOK) All these questions that were developed are what led these southern lawmakers to decide the following: They were to ignore the existence of the slave family altogether , They were to exclude slaves from the
