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Galina-37 [17]
3 years ago
10

How does the story of Anthony Johnson and his family reflect the change of legal status of African Americans in Virginia in the

1600s?
History
2 answers:
dalvyx [7]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

August of that year, however, an all-white jury ruled that Anthony's original land in Virginia could be seized [ from his surviving family] by the state “because he was a Negroe and by consequence an alien.” And fifty acres. By 1651, Johnson gained his freedom and acquired land and servants, eventually attaining legal ownership “for life” over a Black man named John Casor, a condition that separated servitude

DiKsa [7]3 years ago
5 0

In 1665, Anthony Johnson moved to Maryland and leased a 300-acre plantation, where he died five years later. But back in Virginia that same year, a jury decided the land Johnson left behind could be seized by the government because he was a "negroe and by consequence an alien." In 1705 Virginia declared that "All servants imported and brought in this County... who were not Christians in their Native Country... shall be slaves. A Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves ... shall be held to be real estate."
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