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Bound Labor: How Servitude Became Slavery

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The 1705 Virginia slave code itself is the centerpiece here: students identify exactly what it made legal, then argue whether Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 caused the laws that followed, weighing a servant's freedom dues against the chattel status the statute assigned to enslaved people.

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