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  2. Slave codes - Wikipedia

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    The South Carolina slave-code served as the model for many other colonies in North America. [14] In 1755, the colony of Georgia adopted the South Carolina slave code. [15] Virginia's slave codes were made in parallel to those in Barbados, with individual laws starting in 1667 and a comprehensive slave-code passed in 1705. [16]

  3. Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 (formally entitled An act concerning Servants and Slaves), were a series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House of Burgesses in 1705 regulating the interactions between slaves and citizens of the crown colony of Virginia.

  4. South Carolina slave codes - Wikipedia

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    South Carolina established its first slave code in 1695. The code was based on the 1684 Jamaica slave code, which was in turn based on the 1661 Barbados Slave Code. The South Carolina slave code was the model for other North American colonies. [1] Georgia adopted the South Carolina code in 1770, and Florida adopted the Georgia code. [2]

  5. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    3.16 Slave codes. 3.17 Religion. 3.18 Mandatory ... 11 head of slaves, 4 yoke of oxen—in early America, slaves were treated legally and socially as if they were ...

  6. Treatment of slaves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. Seidule, Ty (2020). Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1250239266. Silkenat, David. Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South. New York ...

  7. Slavery in the colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    During the late 17th century and early 18th century, harsh new slave codes limited the rights of African slaves and cut off their avenues to freedom. The first full-scale slave code in British North America was South Carolina's (1696), which was modeled on the colonial Barbados slave code of 1661. It was updated and expanded regularly ...

  8. The 5 states with ballot initiatives to abolish slavery in 2022

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    That amendment, which was ratified in 1865 and thankfully ended slavery for millions of Black people in America, ... Under slavery, the slave codes criminalized enslaved Black people, controlled ...

  9. Barbados Slave Code - Wikipedia

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    Throughout British North America, slavery evolved in practice before it was codified into law. The Barbados slave code of 1661 marked the beginning of the legal codification of slavery. According to historian Russell Menard, "Since Barbados was the first English colony to write a comprehensive slave code, its code was especially influential." [13]