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Re: Compilation of Va. "Racial Integrity" Laws
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I would think the law passed in 1662 is the first to suggest that there was a 
bi-racial Virginia...

1662. Act XII. Children got by an Englishmen upon a Negro woman shall be bond 
or free according to the condition of the mother, and if any Christian shall 
commit fornication  with a Negro man or woman, he shall pay double the ones of 
the fomer act.

Black Laws of Virginia - A Summary of the Legislative Acts of VA Concerning 
Negroes from the Earliest Times to the Present
June Purcell Guild

Selma Stewart


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