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Slave codes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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-- 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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5min Related Video: Slave codes ... 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.
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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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