1 gen 1705 anni - Slave Law

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In An act concerning Servants and Slaves, Virginia's lawmakers
- increase the indenture of a mulatto child born to a white woman to 31 years.
- determine that if a white man or white woman marries a black partner, the white individual will be sent to jail for six months and fined 10 pounds current money of Virginia.
- determine that any minister who marries an interracial couple will be assessed a fine of 10,000 pounds of tobacco.
- determine that any escaped slave who is unwilling or unable to name his or her owner will be sent to the public jail.

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