1. Elizabeth Key (fl. 1655-1660) Biography - Library of Virginia
Elizabeth Key (fl. 1655–1660) was a principal in one of the important early court cases that shaped the evolving law of slavery in seventeenth-century Virginia.
2. "Negro womens children to serve according to the condition of the ...
Author: General AssemblyTranscription Source: William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First ...
— page 170 — Hening’s Statutes at Large, Volume 2, Page 170 WHEREAS some doubts have arrisen whether children got by any Englishman upon a negro woman should be slave or ffree, Be it therefore enacted and declared by this present grand assembly, that all children borne in this country shalbe held bond or free only according to the condition of the mother, And that if any christian shall committ ffornication with a negro man or woman, hee or shee soe offending shall pay double the ffines imposed by the former act. Read more about: “Negro womens children to serve according to the condition of the mother” (1662)
3. Mary Ellen Pleasant - Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in ...
Hailed as the mother of civil rights in California, Mary Ellen Pleasant was a self-made millionaire and leading abolitionist during the Gold-Rush era.
Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California
4. Mother and daughter prosecuted for exploiting "house slave" - NL Times
7 feb 2022 · A 46-year-old woman from Kerkdriel said she has no active memory of the abuse and exploitation allegedly experienced by a former girlfriend who lived with her ...
A 46-year-old woman from Kerkdriel said she has "no active memory" of the abuse and exploitation allegedly experienced by a former girlfriend who lived with her for more than a year, she said in court in Arnhem on Monday. The victim was held in the Kerkdriel home and treated as a "house slave" by the woman and her 81-year-old mother, according to the Public Prosecution Service (OM). The pair were charged with human trafficking.
5. Africans in America/Part 1/Africans in court - PBS
There were no laws in early in 17th-century Virginia that defined the rights, or lack of rights, of blacks. Four cases that came before Virginia courts ...
John Graweere Case: In 1641, John Graweere appeared before the court, asking for permission to buy the freedom of his child in order that he could raise the child as a Christian. Even though the child's mother was a slave, the court granted Graweere permission.
6. A Mother's Desperate Act: 'Margaret Garner' - NPR
19 nov 2010 · Toni Morrison wrote the libretto for this opera, based on a real-life story about an enslaved woman who killed her daughter rather than let ...
Toni Morrison wrote the libretto for this opera, based on a real-life story about an enslaved woman who killed her daughter rather than let her be returned to slavery.
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7. Slave Codes - National Park Service
Laws that Bound. All of the colonies developed laws to establish and maintain dominance over African members of society. This held true for Africans who ...
All of the colonies developed laws to establish and maintain dominance over African members of society. This held true for Africans who came to the New World as free agents, servants or as slaves. The bodies of law that evolved, known variously as “Slave Codes,” “Black Codes,” and “Code Noir,” aimed to limit African social, economic and political autonomy as well as to control the growth of a free African population. Yet, whenever possible, Africans used the laws to their own advantage, so that by the end of the colonial period there existed a small but politically active core of free Africans and African progeny among the nation’s founders.
8. John Brown. Meeting the slave-mother and her child on the ...
1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 33 x 21.8 cm. | Issued in the North during the Civil War, the melodramatic portrayal of an apocryphal incident ...
1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 33 x 21.8 cm. | Issued in the North during the Civil War, the melodramatic portrayal of an apocryphal incident from the life of John Brown must have had unmistakable propagandistic overtones. In actuality a violent antislavery fanatic, Brown was convicted in 1859 of treason, inciting slave rebellion, and murder in his abortive attempt to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and ignite an armed slave insurrection in the South. Yet through his trial and execution at Charles Town, Virginia, in December 1859, Brown became for many Northerners a martyr of the abolitionist cause. Here the artist shows Brown calmly descending the steps of the Charles Town jail, hands tied behind his back. "Regarding with a look of compassion a Slave-mother and Child who obstructed the passage on his way to the Scaffold. --Capt. Brown stooped and kissed the Child--then met his fate." The strikingly madonna-like slave woman is seated on a stone railing, holding an equally Christ-like infant. One of Brown's guards reaches forward, about to push her away. In the foreground a mustachioed and elegantly uniformed soldier waits impatiently, hand on his sword hilt. Behind Brown a figure from the American Revolution, wearing a tricornered hat emblazoned "76," watches with concern. The flag of the state of Virginia with the motto "Sic semper tyrannis" flies prominently above Brown's head. A statue of Justice, with its arms and scales broken, stands forgotten beh...
9. Leonardo da Vinci's mother might have been a slave - The Conversation
28 mrt 2023 · A document, which dates to 1452, shows that da Vinci's father emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina – Leonardo's mother.
A document, which dates to 1452, shows that da Vinci’s father emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina – Leonardo’s mother.
10. [PDF] The Slave Family: A View from the Slave Narratives
The slave narrative collections of the Work Projects Administration and Fisk. University contain over 2,200 interviews with aged ex-slaves taken primarily.
11. Jones v. Wootten, 1 Del. 77 | Casetext Search + Citator
1 Citing Cases. From Casetext: Smarter Legal Research ... The mother of this boy was a slave. Her offspring ... case as in the other. May we not then from a ...
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12. [PDF] An enslaved mother and her children: slavery and death in late XIXth ...
In order to focus on the role maternity and motherhood played in slavery, we therefore must consider the fact that enslaved men. Page 2. 2 and women experienced ...