| 词条 | Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 |
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The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 were a series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House of Burgesses regulating activities related to interactions between slaves and citizens of the crown colony of Virginia. The enactment of the Slave Codes is considered to be the consolidation of slavery in Virginia, and served as the foundation of Virginia's slave legislation.[1] These codes effectively embedded the idea of white supremacy into law by the following devices:[2]
These new laws exhibited a grand departure from business as it once was, stripping from blacks many previously held rights. {{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=March 2017}} Before this, indentured servants, while they served their term, and slaves were almost equals in their plight. Now, a racial divide was a legal mandate. {{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=March 2017}} Historians generally agree that this law was devised to establish a greater level of control over the surging African slave population of Virginia. {{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=March 2017}} It also served to socially segregate white colonists from black slaves making them disparate groups hindering their ability to unite. {{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=March 2017}} A unity of the commoners was a perceived fear of the Virginia aristocracy which had to be addressed, and who wished to prevent a repeat of events such as Bacon's Rebellion, occurring 29 years prior. See also
Notes1. ^{{cite book|author=Bush, Jonathan A.|chapter=The British Constitution and the Creation of American Slavery|editor=Finkelman, Paul|title=Slavery & the Law|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2002|isbn=978-0-7425-2119-3|page=392|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YI0DvuukxkC&pg=PA392}} 2. ^Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty!: An American History (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009), p. 100. 6 : Virginia law|Legal history of Virginia|United States slavery law|History of slavery in Virginia|1705 in Virginia|1705 in law |
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