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Baptist: Many historians focus on rules of slavery and kinship/inheritance (is a child born slave or free?), but laws on policing escaped slaves and segregating them from poor whites came first.Permalink On twitter.com
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This included laws that empowered whites to police runaways. In 1668: Virginia law immunized those policing runaways from charge of murder.Permalink On twitter.com
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Baptist: This gave even non-slaveholding whites the right to kill without punishment.On twitter.com
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