White women are the BIGGEST beneficiaries from global slavery
let’s have a look of some of these Virgina Laws
1640 — 1660: The Critical Period: Custom to Law when Status Changed to "Servant for Life"
let’s have a look of some of these Virgina Laws
1640 — 1660: The Critical Period: Custom to Law when Status Changed to "Servant for Life"
- 1639/40 - The General Assembly of Virginia specifically excludes blacks from the requirement of possessing arms
- 1642 - Black women are deemed tithables (taxable), creating a distinction between African and English women.
- 1662 - Blacks face the possibility of life servitude. The General Assembly of Virginia decides that any child born to an enslaved woman will also be a slave.
- 1667 - Virginia lawmakers say baptism does not bring freedom to blacks. The statute is passed because some slaves used their status as a Christian in the 1640s and 1650s to argue for their freedom or for freedom for a child. Legislators also encourage slave owners to Christianize their enslaved men, women and children.
- 1668 - Free black women, like enslaved females over the age of 16, are deemed tithable. The Virginia General Assembly says freedom does not exempt black women from taxation.
- 1669 - An act about the "casual killing of slaves" says that if a slave dies while resisting his master, the act will not be presumed to have occurred with “prepensed malice.”
The 1669 Casual killing Act was to protect white women from going to jail because they were killing such large amounts of slave children. 1662 Act was again to protect white women and their children from having to share any of the family estate with children born between Master and slave woman... a white woman in Barbados was the one that determined baptising a slave does not make the slave free as it would be akin to baptising her “black bytch’’ her dog.
