| Date | 1798 |
|---|---|
| Law/Legislation | Law |
| Jurisdiction | VA |
| Title | Chapter 4 |
| Description/Full Text | Free persons conspiring with slaves to rebel shall suffer death. Free persons harboring or entertaining any slave without the master's consent shall pay ten dollars, free Negroes not able to pay shall receive not to exceed thirty-nine lashes. It is further enacted that in cases wherein the property of a person held as a slave demanding freedom shall come for trial, no person shall serve as a juror who shall belong to a society for the emancipation of Negroes. It is made a felony for a free Negro to give his certificate of freedom to a slave. The skipper of a vessel must not carry a slave out of the state until he has take him before a magistrate, and made out a description of the slave and shall have produced the slave's certificate of freedom. |
| Additional Information | – |
| Source | Black Laws of Virginia, By: June Purcell Guild |
| Transcriber Notes | – |
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