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Using the documents below and any outside knowledge, address the following statement:
"Analyze the evolution of the status of Afücans in colonial Virginia."
Document A
Court entry in the 1620s: "I claim headrights for Africans I imported into Virginia." Anthony Johnson,
Negro
Document B
Colonial Reco¡ds of Virginia, 1624 (A census record of a geographical area)
Richard Gregory
Gilbert Pepper
Edward Alborn
Thomas Mimes
Thomas Dellimager John Linge
Thomas Hack
Jobr Gale
Anthony Jones
Thomas Bamett
Robert Guy
Roger Thompson
William Sirachey
Aln Thompson
Joh¡ Browne
Ann Doughty
Alìnis Boult
Sara Woodson
William Baker
Negors
Theodore Berislou
Negors
Walter Blake
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N€gors
Thomas Watts
Negors
Thomas Doughty
Negors
Negors
George Deverell
Richard Sparling
Grivell Pooley, Minister
Woodson
Straimge
Thomas Dune
John
William
Samuel Sharp
John Upton
John Wilson
John Landman
Henry Rowinge
Leonard Yeats
Natha¡iel Thomas
William Bar¡et
Robert Okley
John Bramford
George Levet
Thomas
Harvay
Robert Smith
Thomas Garmder
Thomas
Gaskon
Althony
William
Johr Oliver
John
Robert Peake
Cbristopher Pugett
Anthony
A Negors Woman
Nego¡s men
Document C
1625 Census: "John Pedro, a Neg er aged 30 in the Swan 1623"
Antoney Negro: Isabell Negro: and William Theire Child Baptised."
Document l)
1627 tùy'lll: "John Throgmorton's will gave unto ye wife of Oliver Jenkins the service of his Negar for a
yere: And further he gave unto his servants, William Edes & Thomas Stent two yeares a peece oftheir
time."
Document E
1627 Will: "Sir George Yardley's
any other thing."
will gave unto his heirs his good
debts cbattels servants negars cattle or
Document F
Virginia Court sentence, 1630; "Hugh Davis is to be soundly whipped, before an assembly ofnegroes and
others for abusing himself to the dishonor ofGod and shame of Christians, by defrling his body in lying
with a negro."
DoÇument G
Virginia stah-rte, 1662: "If any Christian shall commit Fornication with
soe offending shall pay double the usual fine."
a negro man or
woman, hee or shee
Document H
Joumal ofthe Virginia House ofBurgesses, 1666: "A certain mulatto, being bought as a slave for Ever in
1644, is hereby judged no slave and but to sorve as other Christian servants do and is freed as of September
1665."
Document
I
Virginia statute, 1667: "A mulatto child's status followed its mother's condition ratlìer than it's father's."
Document J
Virginia statute, 1667: "Baptism could not bring ûeedom to slaves by birth."
K
Vi4inia statute, 1669: "Wïereas üe only law in force for the punishment ofservants resisting tleir master
caûrot be inflicted upon negroes, ifa slave by the extremity of the cor¡ection should chance to die, the
Document
master shall not be adjudged guilty of felony since it cannot be prepensed malice (which alone make
murther Felony) should induce any man to desFoy his own estate."
Document
L
Vfugida statute, 1670: "Free blacks, even ifchristians themselves,
are
prohibited from
bulng Christian
servants."
Document M
William Berkley's estimate, 1671: "Virginia has two thousand black slaves, six thousa¡d Ch¡istian
servants."
Document N
Vtginiâ stah¡te, 1681: "Such shameful Matches between Negros and free women occurs always to the
Satisfaccion of theire fwhite women's] I-ascivious and Lustfi¡ll desi¡es, and to the disgrace not only ofthe
English butt also of many other Cbristian Nations."