I noticed that several poster mentioned that during a certain period in
Virginia history, Natives were excluded from being sold into slavery. In
1704 the designation of Indian was no longer valid. Virginia law gave
Natives options of being White, or black.  If a Native was dark, he/she lost
the option, and was designated as a Dark Mulatto.

There was no clear cut law that kept Natives from being sold into slavery,
since there was no designation of Indian.  The Virginia Assembly set up a
system in which Free Blacks, and Mulattos' were Indentured out for thirty
Years.  This was a category that Natives (who were not Honorary Whites)
would have been under.

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