VIRGINIA SLAVE LAWS December 1662

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 VIRGINIA SLAVE LAWS

December 1662
Whereas some doubts have arisen whether children got by any Englishman upon a Negro woman should be slave or free, be it therefore enacted and declared by this present Grand Assembly, that all children born in this country shall be held bond or free only according to the condition of the mother; and that if any Christian shall commit fornication with a Negro man or woman, he or she so offending shall pay double the fines imposed by the former act. (Ficklin Media note: just 40 years after Jamestown)
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    Tom Ficklin
    this 1662 law confounds my mind,- race,culture,patriarchy,religion, beliefs,mores and last but not least the sex and lust- what a volatile mix and recipe for the sentencing of generational incremental genocide for some and white bread success for others,

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