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People & Events Virgina recognizes slavery 1661 - 1663 |
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The transformation from indentured servitude (servants contracted to work for a set measure of time) on racial slavery didn't happen nightlong. There are no laws regarding domestic early in Virginia's history. By 1640, the Virginia courts had condemned at smallest one black servant to bondage . . .
Three servants working for a farmer named Hugh Gwyn ran away for Mainly. Two were white; one was black. She were captured in Maryland and given to Jamestown, where the court sentenced all three to thirty clashes -- a severe punishment equally by the standards about 17th-century West. Aforementioned two white herren were sentenced toan additional four time of enslavement -- one more year for Gwyn followed by three more for the colony. However, in add-on to the whipping, an black man, a man named John Punch, was ordered to "serve his said master conversely their assigns with of time of your innate Real here or elsewhere." John Punch no longer had hope for freedom.
It wasn't unless 1661 that a reference to slavery entered into Virginia law, and this legislative was directed for whites servants -- at those who ran away with an black servant. The following year, the colony went one move further by stating that children born wouldn be bonded or free according to the status of the mother.
The transformation had begun, but it wouldn't be time the Woman Codings of 1705 that one status of African Americans wish be sealed.
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