This September, Encyclopedia Virginia invites you to make a gift to support the inclusive story of Virginia.Support Encyclopedia VirginiaMEDIA Show Media Original Author: William Waller HeningCreated: 1823Medium: BookHening’s Statutes at Large, Volume 2, Page 481William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (New York: R. & W. & G. Bartow, 1823), 2:481.FEATURED IN“An act for preventing Negroes Insurrections” (1680)