“An act for suppressing outlying slaves” (1691)

“An act for suppressing outlying slaves” (1691)

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If a runaway was killed, the public would owe the owner 4,000 pounds of tobacco. And if white person married a runaway or an Indian, they "shall within three months after such marriage be banished and removed from this dominion forever..."

William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (Philadelphia: R. & W. & G. Bartow, 1823), 3:86–88.

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