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

Further Reading

Books

• Adams, Francis D., and Barry Sanders. Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man’s Land, 1619–2000. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
• Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr. Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.
• Woods, Betty. The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1997.

Web Sites

• “Slavery and the Law in Virginia.” Colonial Williamsburg Web site. http://www.history.org/History/slavelaw.cfm.
• “The Terrible Transformation.” PBS’s “Africans in America” Web site. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/.
• “The Virginia Company of London.” National Park Service “Historic Jamestowne” Web site. http://www.nps.gov/the-virginia-company-of-london.htm.