How did the English Empire in America expand in the mid seventeeth century?
How was slavery established in the Western Atlantic world?
What major social and political crises rocked the colonies?
What were the directions of social and economic change in the eighteenth century colonies?
How did the patterns of class and gender roles change in eigteenth century America?
What was the extent of Native power across the continent by the mid eigteenth century?

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First Slaves in the English America's 1619

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1662 Law

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William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619. (New York: R. & W. & G. Bartow, 1823), 2:170.

Encyclopedia Virginia

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Virginia's slave codes

were made in parallel to those in Barbados, with individual laws starting in 1667 and a comprehensive slave-code passed in 1705. In 1667, the Virginia House of Burgesses enacted a law which didn't recognize the conversion of African Americans to Christianity despite a baptism. In 1669, Virginia enacted "An act about the casual killing of slaves" which declared that masters who killed slaves deemed resisting were exempt from felony charges. In 1670, they enacted a law prohibiting free Africans from purchasing servants who weren't also African. In 1680, Virginia passed Act X, which prohibited slaves from carrying weapons, leaving their owner's plantation without a certificate, or raising a hand against "Christians".

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Colonial Population

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Bacon's Rebellion

Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia. Thousands of Virginians from all classes (including those in indentured servitude) and races rose up in arms against Berkeley, chasing him from Jamestown and ultimately torching the settlement.

Creating Anglo-America

Entrenchment of American Slavery

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First Slaves in the English America's 1619

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1662 Law

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Virginia's slave codes

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Colonial Population

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Bacon's Rebellion

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King Phillip's War