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Slave codes were laws each US state, or colony, had defining the status of slaves and the rights of masters; the code gave slave owners near-absolute power over the right of their human property. Vi...
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Slave Codes of 1705 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Slave Codes of 1705 were a comprehensive series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House of Burgesses to regulate the growing slave population in Virginia. The Slave Codes of 1705 defin...
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For the 17th century slave in Virginia, disputes with a master could be brought before a court for judgement. With the slave codes of 1705, this no longer was the case.
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That whatsoever free-born [English] woman shall intermarry with any slave. . . shall serve the master of such slave during the life of her husband; and that all the issue of such free-born women, so married shall be slaves as their fathers were.
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-- The following shall be considered as capital offences, when committed by a slave or free person of color: insurrection, or an attempt to excite it; committing a rape, or attempting it on a free white female; murder of a free white person, or murder of a slave or free person of color, or poisoning of a human being;
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Slave rules were made to keep slaves under control. If a slave ever broke a rules they would get whipped. Early slave codes were the same as the slave codes in the later years except that the early slave codes didn't have as many codes as the later years and that in the early years slavery was religious based.
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27b. Slave Life and Slave Codes ... This Slave Code booklet for Washington D.C., was published in 1862, only one month before Lincoln abolished slavery in the nation's capitol. More lenient than most states' slave codes, the District's code allowed slaves to hire themselves out and live apart from their masters.
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Although each colony had differing ideas about the rights of slaves, there were some common threads in slave codes across areas where slavery was common. Legally considered property, slaves were not allowed to own property of their own.
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All slave codes made slavery a permanent condition, inherited through the mother, and defined slaves as property, usually in the same terms as those applied to real estate. Slaves, being property, could not own property or be a party to a contract.
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S31. Any person who shall attempt to teach any free person of color, or slave, to spell, read or write, shall, upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than two hundred fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.
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