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1723 Virginia Legislation Abolish Slave Rights

Abolish Slave Rights

Virginia’s Anti-Assembly Law impeded negroes from meeting or having a sense of community. Virginia’s Weapons Law forbade negroes from keeping weapons. The Virginia colony enacted laws to limit the increase of free negroes to those born into that class or manumitted by special acts of the legislature. Denied Free negroes the right to vote and forbidden to carry weapons of any sort.

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1723 Virginia Legislation Abolish Slave Rights

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