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The first Africans in Virginia (as slaves)

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Laws barred blacks from serving in the Virginian military

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Virginia passed a law that states "masters should furnish arms to all

men, 'excepting negros"

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A poll tax was enforced on Africans but not white women

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Inventory of the estate of William Burdett

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Someone sold a woman and her son so that they could be “used forever” implying that person as well as their future children

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Africans constituted only 300 of Virginia's 15,000 inhabitants, or 2 percent

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Virginia and Maryland referred explicitly to slavery in their laws

Barbados generated more trade than all English colonies combined

Issac Friend started to band together with other servants to revolt.

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the Virginia Assembly began to institutionalize slavery, to

make it de jure

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A Virginian law was passed saying that if a child was born to one free person and one slave, the status of the child mirrors the mother's. (This led to an increase in sexual assault)

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The House of Burgesses turned down a proposal to levy taxes on land instead of polls

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Christians could own Christian slaves and all interracial babies are illegitimate.

Virginia declared that "the conferring of baptism does not alter the condition of the person as to his bondage or freedom.

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Slave population increased from 20,000 to more than 80,000

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General decrease in the amount of Indentured servants coming to Virginia

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Suffrage limited to land owners

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The plantation workforce largely transitioned from indentured servants to slaves

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Start and end of the Bacon Rebellion

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Bacon's death

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Everyone with even the slightest amount of African ancestors was treated as black

Law allowing physical violence towards Blacks. Allowed for further dehumanization of blacks

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Laws were enacted that denied slaves freedom of assembly and movement

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The Virginia Assembly passed a law that prohibited the “abominable mixture and spurious issue” of interracial unions

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Slaves consisted 48% of households

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The number of white indentured servants entering Virginia declined sharply after 1700

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All servants brought over, who were not Christians beforehand, cannot convert to Christianity afterwards

Virginia legislated that "all horses, cattle, and hogs, now belonging, or that hereafter shall belong to any slave, or of any slaves mark ... shall be seized and sold by the churchwardens of the parish ... and the profit thereof applied to the use of the poor"

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The Virginian assembly enacted a poor law which punished vagrants by giving them 39 lashes or by binding them out as servants

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The black population took up over 40% of Virginia

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Virginia had 40% of slaves in the entire US

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Sugar plantations dominated the Western Indian economy on most islands