If an Irish indentured servant and a free African married in colonial Maryland, they could be subject to penalties for engaging in ____. A. an interracial relationship B. a slave revolt C. sabotage D. immoral behavior

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A. an interracial relationship

In colonial Maryland and many other American colonies, laws and social norms imposed penalties on individuals who engaged in interracial relationships, particularly marriages. Such unions, especially between white individuals and individuals of African descent, were often viewed as socially and morally unacceptable. Laws prohibiting interracial marriage were part of the broader system of racial hierarchy and discrimination that existed in colonial America.