How did the slave codes affect enslaved people? *

Slave codes also gave white masters nearly total control over the lives of slaves, permitting owners to use such corporal punishments as whipping, branding, maiming, and torture. Although white masters could not legally murder their slaves, some did and were never prosecuted.

Explanation:

Slave codes also gave white masters nearly total control over the lives of slaves, permitting owners to use such corporal punishments as whipping, branding, maiming, and torture. Although white masters could not legally murder their slaves, some did and were never prosecuted.

Explanation: So they can keep their slave code safe and sound from other slavers that they didn't know.

answer; people where able to travel across the u.s.a faster than any other mode of transportation,travel time was about a week,from coast to coast

no because we were not ready for war