preventing enslaved workers from improving their legal status by changing their religion. • Virginia, 1682: A law establishing the racial distinction between servants and slaves was enacted.
In Pennsylvania, William Penn’s Great Act (1682) made passed in the colonies [sic]. By 1776, most of the colonies had roughly comparable death statutes which covered arson, piracy, treason ...
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