Slavery in the United States began in 1619, when the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, and were sold into slavery. Fifty years later, on October 20, 1669, the Virginia Assembly enacted a law removing criminal penalties for people who killed slaves that resisted authority. The rationale was that such a killing could not […]
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