Bound Labor: How Servitude Became Slavery

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Headright land grants open these fill-in-the-blank notes on Virginia law, which move through the 1662 and 1667 statutes and the 1705 slave code in the same door-closing order the slides use, turning a labor contract with an end date into slavery for life.

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