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Act X is Passed
January, 1639/40, Act X states that, all Negroes to be provided with arms will be fined by the Governor and Council. This law makes it hard for slaves to protect themselves. If a slave’s job was to hunt they have to use a different weapon. This show diminishing progress because before slaves could have guns to hunt. Now they can’t even have that. -
Anthony Johnson Owns Land
Court Case, Document A states that, Anthony Johnson, a Negro, acquires land in Northampton County. This shows that slaves could own land and have their own workers. This will show diminishing progress because later slaves’ rights to own land will be revoked. -
Act III is Passed
September, 1667, Act III states that, if slaves are baptized they are not exempt from bondage for life. Slaves before were able to be baptized then become indentured servants. The slave owners didn’t like that because, they were encouraged to baptize their slaves but they didn’t want to give them up. With this law the slave owners did not have to make their slaves indentured servants for baptizing them. This shows diminishing progress because this took away a slave’s chance to become free -
Act IV is Passed
October, 1670, Act IV states that, no Indians or Negroes could buy Christian slaves and servants. This shows that what once was able to be done by that race can no longer be done by them. This shows diminishing progress because slaves used to be able to buy Christian slaves and servants. This was another right that was taken from them. -
Chapter XXII is Passed
October, 1705, Chap. XXII states that, Negro, mulatto, and Indians within the new world are to become real estate. This law took away all human qualities for that race. They went from owning real estate to becoming real estate. This law took away all the freedom they had left and made their lives miserable. This shows the most diminishing progress because this made slaves not even a person in the whites’ eyes. They were just an item that you buy, sell, or break.
