"All servants imported and brought into the country ... who were not Christians in their native country ... shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion ... shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resist his master ... correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction ... the master shall be free of all punishment ... as if such accident never happened."
-Virginia Slave Code of 1705, Virginia General Assembly
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