WHEREAS some doubts, have arisen whether negro women set free were still to be accompted tithable according to a former act, It is declared by this grand assembly that negro women, though permitted to enjoy their ffreedome yet ought not in all respects to be admitted to a full fruition of the exemptions and impunities of the English, and are still lyable to payment of taxes.
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“Negro women not exempted from tax” (1668)
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In the act “Negro women not exempted from tax,” passed by the General Assembly in the session of September 1668, colonial Virginia‘s government attempted to better define the conditions by which free and enslaved African Americans were taxed.
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September 1668
In a newly passed law, the General Assembly orders that all black women, including free black women, are henceforth tithable, meaning that their labor can be taxed.
FURTHER READING
Runaway Slaves (1642–1643) Court Ruling on Anthony Johnson and His Servant (1655) “A Report of a Comittee from an Assembly Concerning the freedome of Elizabeth Key” (1656) Phillip Mongom Accused of Stealing Hogs (1659–1660) “English running away with negroes” (1660–1661) “Negro womens children to serve according to the condition of the mother” (1662) “Women servants whose common imployment is working in the ground to be accompted tythable” (1662) “An act concerning Servants and Slaves” (1705) “Act directing the trial of Slaves, committing capital crimes; and for the more effectual punishing conspiracies and insurrections of them; and for the better government of Negros, Mulattos, and Indians, bond or free” (1723) Denying Free Blacks the Right to Vote (1724, 1735) “An act declaring that baptisme of slaves doth not exempt them from bondage” (1667)
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- APA Citation:
- General Assembly. “Negro women not exempted from tax” (1668). (2020, December 07). In Encyclopedia Virginia. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/negro-women-not-exempted-from-tax-1668.
- MLA Citation:
- General Assembly. "“Negro women not exempted from tax” (1668)" Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, (07 Dec. 2020). Web. 26 Sep. 2023
