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  2. History of slavery in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    A law making race-based slavery legal was passed in Virginia in 1661. [8] It allowed any free person the right to own slaves. [37] In 1662, the Virginia House of Burgesses passed a law that said a child was born a slave if the mother was a slave, based on partus sequitur ventrem. Specifically, "all children borne in this country shall be held ...

  3. 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]

  4. Partus sequitur ventrem - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, in the Upland South, some slaveholders freed their slaves after the Revolution through manumission. The population of free black men and free black women rose from less than 1% in 1780 to more than 10% in 1810, when 7.2% of Virginia's population was free black people, and 75% of Delaware's black population was free. [18]

  5. 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 ...

  6. Category:1662 in the Colony of Virginia - Wikipedia

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  7. Timeline of Colonial America - Wikipedia

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    The Province of Carolina allows the arming of slaves during time of war. 1705 – The House of Burgesses passes the Virginia Slave Codes of 1705. 1707 – Benjamin Church fails to take Port Royal. 1710 – Francis Nicholson takes Port Royal. 1711 – The British fail to take Quebec City.

  8. Indentured servitude in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    They were still considered to be indentured servants, like the approximately 4000 white indentured people, since a slave law was not passed in the colony until 1661. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] At the turn of the century, an increase in the Atlantic slave trade enabled planters to purchase enslaved labor, in lieu of bonded labor (indentured servants and ...

  9. 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 ...