MEDIA Show Media Credit: Google BooksOriginal Author: General AssemblyCreated: 1856Medium: Book pageActs of the General Assembly of Virginia (1856), Page 37Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia Passed in 1855–6 in the Eightieth Year of the Commonwealth (Richmond, Virginia: William T. Ritchie, 1856), 37.FEATURED INAn ACT providing for the voluntary enslavement of the free negroes of the commonwealth (February 18, 1856)