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The 1643 law introduced the idea of legal racial difference by making the labor of all Black women, enslaved or free, a taxable commodity. White wives, daughters, and servants of plantation owners did not count toward a plantation owner’s taxable people. The laws suggested that Black women labored in the fields and white women did not.
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Sep 7, 2023 · Laws of the Virginia Colony (1643, 1662) September 07, 2023. As explained in the “Women and the American Story” archive of the New-York Historical Society, “The Virginia colony laws…demonstrate how the colonial government used legislation about women to shore up race-based slavery.”. These two laws reinforce the status of enslaved ...
These three laws outline the way the Virginia Grand Assembly tied race to slavery in the 1600s. The 1643 law introduced the idea of legal racial difference by making the labor of all black women, enslaved or free, a taxable commodity, while white wives, daughters, and servants of plantation owners did not count toward a plantation
Jan 15, 2021 · In the early years of slavery, especially in the South, the distinction between indentured servants and slaves was, at first, unclear. In 1643, a law was passed in Virginia that made African women “tithable.”. This, in effect, associated African women’s work with hard, agricultural labor. There was no similar tax levied on white women.
Dec 7, 2020 · In its March 1643 session, the General Assembly repealed all former laws and passes a series of new laws that helped to clarify the intentions of its previous legislation. In this first act, the assembly explains the powers and obligations of the parish vestry and dictates taxes to be paid and the people—including enslaved African women ...
May 18, 2020 · Tightening the Bonds of Slavery. In the early years of slavery, especially in Virginia and Maryland, the distinction between indentured servants and slaves was initially unclear. In 1643, however, a law was passed in Virginia that made African women “tithable.”. This, in effect, associated African women’s work with difficult agricultural ...
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New laws created the expectation that African-descended peoples would remain enslaved for life. The permanent deprivation of freedom facilitated the maintenance of strict racial barriers. Skin color became more than superficial difference; it became the marker of a transcendent, all-encompassing division between two distinct peoples, two races, white and black.
