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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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.....
To continue reading this dissertation in full: Click Here.
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