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Complicated Lives: Free Blacks In Virginia, 1619-1865, Sherri L. Burr
Complicated Lives: Free Blacks In Virginia, 1619-1865, Sherri L. Burr
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Would the United States have developed differently if Virginia had not passed a law in 1670 proclaiming all subsequently arriving Africans as servants for life, or slaves? What if the state had not stripped all Free Blacks and Indians of voting rights in 1723, or outlawed interracial sex for 337 years?
Complicated Lives upends the pervasive belief that all Africans landing on the shores of Virginia beginning in late August 1619, became slaves. In reality, many of these kidnap victims received the status of indentured servants. Indeed, hundreds of thousands of free African Americans in the South and North owned …
The Justice System Is Criminal, Raven Delfina Otero-Symphony
The Justice System Is Criminal, Raven Delfina Otero-Symphony
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The Alien Registration Act Of 1940, Carol R. Rice
The Alien Registration Act Of 1940, Carol R. Rice
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The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the various factors which led to the passage of the Smith Act. Into this consideration will enter the numerous bills introduced during the decade, the congressional investigating committee, and their reports.