Compare the 1643 and 1662 Laws of Virginia. What did each say and how is each critical to the story of slavery?
Compare the 1643 and 1662 Laws of Virginia.
What did each say and how is each critical to the story of slavery?
There is a long history and timeline of laws that were enacted from time to time in Virginia as a medium to categorize people. The law of 1643 was enacted to deal with those who run away from the services of their masters. The loss in the form of labor was to be compensated by them by doubling their indentured labor. The penalty and the punishment for transgressing the second time were to be registered and marked on their cheeks by the letter R under the statute of rogues. Slavery and bonded labor were highly inhumane as the working conditions were tough, and laborers were paid less or a time paid nothing but forced to work like animals.
The law of 1662 was not humanely friendly anyway because instead of solving the existing problems it added more fuel to the previous laws. It was enacted in the context of a white male and negro female relationship if fornication was committed with a black woman by a Christian man the children born were to be decided by the race or color of the mother then in case of offense the woman was to be fined double than the previous provisions of fine.
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