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Virginia’s Act III: Baptism Does Not Exempt Slaves from Bondage

( 1667 ) Commentary by MaryLou Walsh, College of Saint Rose

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“It is enacted and declared by this grand assembly, and the authority thereof, that the conferring of baptism doth not alter the condition of the person as to his bondage or freedom.”

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