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In 1772, George Mason, later famous as the “Father of the Bill of Rights,” represented a slave named Robin and eleven other enslaved plaintiffs in the General Court of Virginia, the colony’s highest court.
judicially abolishing Indian slavery in Virginia.9 This precedent spread: throughout the antebellum period, courts in Connecticut, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Tennessee all grappled with Virginia's decisions and debated whether maternal descent from American Indians was sufficient to establish freedom.
Everett explains that Indians were enslaved early in Virginia's history, during the first Anglo-Powhatan war of 1622. Fifty years later, slavery had become profitable, and Everett makes the striking assertion that Bacon's Rebellion of. 1676 was, at root, an unsuccessful effort to gain control of the Indian slave trade.
Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia on JSTOR. Woody Holton. Series: Copyright Date: 1999. Published by: University of North Carolina Press, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Pages: 256. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807899861_holton. Select all.
Deeply researched, authoritative, and indispensable, Slavery in Indian Country tells us how slavery as an institution changed from a kin-based to a race-based system and richly evokes what the experience of slavery meant to those who were enslaved.
Slavery in Virginia began with the capture and enslavement of Native Americans during the early days of the English Colony of Virginia and through the late eighteenth century. They primarily worked in tobacco fields.
15 lis 2016 · Kristalyn Marie Shefveland has written a succinct history of Anglo-Native relations in Virginia, focusing on the tributary system, trading routes, Indian slave trade, and, to a lesser extent, conversion in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont regions during the midcolonial period.
