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First negroes brought to Virginia (Richard Dunn, 670)/(Foner Reading)

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Laws barred Africans from joining Virginia militia (Foner Reading)

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Morgan emphasizes the brutality of chief tobacco entrepreneurs, who exploited indentured servants (Richard Dunn, 670)

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Morgan explores the disastrous effects of high mortality (Richard Dunn, 670)

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The Virginia Legislature passed a law stating that masters could give their servants arms "excepting negroes" (Takaki Reading)

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A poll tax was imposed on Africans but not white women (Foner Reading)

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Morgan talks about the home government being the villain with a crew of rapacious officials and extortionate tobacco customs (Richard Dunn, 670)

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The Virginia Legislature began to institutionalize slavery to make it de jure which would require them to work for life

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A Virginia law states that if a child was born from parents where one is free and the other is a slave, the child would follow the status of the mother (Foner Reading)

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The Council of Foreign Plantations reported that the colony's population increase was due to the amount of servants being sent over (Takaki Reading)

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The Virginia House of Burgesses decreed that religious conversion wouldn't be enough to free a slave from bondage... They also defined any child born from interracial relationships as illegitimate. (Foner Reading)

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Morgan reverts to planter-worker tensions focusing on ex-servant freemen---> leading up to Bacon's Rebellion (Richard Dunn, 670)

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Minor confrontation between Virginia white settlers and Native Americans caused settlers to ask government to exterminate all Native Americans on the land. When the government declined,  a series of Native American massacres happened which would lead up to a full-fledged rebellion. (Foner Reading)

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Notions of racial difference were embedded into the legal system and laws (Foner Reading)

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There were 4,500 negroes in Chesapeake (a little over 5% of the region's population) --- Foner Reading

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Tobacco cutting riots (Emory Evans, 262)

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Gradually, Africans became the chief source of labor in tobacco fields (Emory Evans, 262)

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Slave labor replaced indentured servitude (Foner Reading)

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Africans made up more than 10% of Virginia's population (Foner Reading)

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The House of Burgesses proclaimed that slaves were deemed as property because the house saw how important slavery was to their society (Foner Reading)

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Africans made up about 50 % of the population in Virginia (Foner Reading)