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  2. History of slavery in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Additional laws regarding slavery were passed in the seventeenth century and in 1705 were codified into Virginia's first slave code, [48] An act concerning Servants and Slaves. The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 stated that people who were not Christians, or were black, mixed-race, or Native Americans would be classified as slaves (i.e., treated ...

  3. First Africans in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Near Veracruz in the Bay of Campeche, the English privateers White Lion and Treasurer, operating under Dutch and Savoyard letters of marque and sponsored by the Earl of Warwick and Samuel Argall, attacked the San Juan Bautista, and each took 20-30 of the African captives to Old Point Comfort on Hampton Roads at the tip of the Virginia Peninsula, the first time such a group was brought to ...

  4. 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. The enactment of the Slave Codes is considered to be the consolidation of ...

  5. Category:History of slavery in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "History of slavery in Virginia" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  6. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    In the South, Kentucky was created as a slave state from Virginia (1792), and Tennessee was created as a slave state from North Carolina (1796). By 1804, before the creation of new states from the federal western territories, the number of slave and free states was 8 each.

  7. Robert Carter III - Wikipedia

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    The price of slaves reached a 20-year low as the percentage listed as "black, tithable" (i.e. slaves) fell below 40%, the lowest point in the century. However, Virginia's courts sidestepped issuing appellate decisions ratifying emancipation until 1799, [54] and the methodology of within-life emancipation was not established.

  8. Anthony Burns - Wikipedia

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    Anthony Burns (May 31, 1834 – July 17, 1862) was an African-American man who escaped from slavery in Virginia in 1854. His capture and trial in Boston, and transport back to Virginia, generated wide-scale public outrage in the North and increased support for abolition. Burns was born enslaved in Stafford County, Virginia.

  9. History of slavery in the United States by state - Wikipedia

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    The legal status of slavery in New Hampshire has been described as "ambiguous," [15] and abolition legislation was minimal or non-existent. [16] New Hampshire never passed a state law abolishing slavery. [17] That said, New Hampshire was a free state with no slavery to speak of from the American Revolution forward. [9] New Jersey