Monday, August 25, 2008

The Status of the Negro in Virginia



STATUS OF THE NEGRO IN VIRGINIA
During the Colonial Period
BY
GERALD MONTGOMERY WEST, M.A.
Submitted as one of the Requirements for the
Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the
School of Political Science,
Columbia College.
NOV 8 1915

CHAPTER I.
Fundamental Law of the Colonies.

"About the last of August came in a Dutch man of warre
that sold us twenty negars," wrote John Rolfe in 1619'.

Thus, briefly and incidentally, was chronicled an event
fraught with such momentous results — the introduction of
slavery into tho Anglo-American colonies.

In order to determine the legal condition of the negro at
this, his first and enforced appearance in those colonies, as well
as subsequently, it will be necessary to examine the various
charters of the colonies and the English common and statute
law.....
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