Virginia Codes Regulating Servitude and Slavery (1642–1705)

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Virginia Codes Regulating Servitude and Slavery (1642–1705)
Summary
The Virginia Codes Regulating Servitude and Slavery (1642–1705) is a series of regulations that were passed in the Colony of Virginia in 1705. The rules aimed to manage the way slaves and citizens of the colony interacted. This move cemented slavery in Virginia, which led to other formulation of Virginia slave laws. Particular devices were established based on the enacted regulation between 1642-1705. Through such laws, there were novel property rights for slave owners. People would freely trade slaves with any legal implications because there were protections given to slave owners as per the law. There were no blacks wh...