Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond Virginia, 1782–1865 (62 page)

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117. Virginia General Assembly, Legislative Petitions, Dec. 17, 1834, LVA.
118. "An Act to Amend and Reduce into One the Several Acts of the General Assembly, for Regulating the Militia of This Commonwealth," "An Act Further Declaring What Shall Be Deemed Unlawful Meetings of Slaves," and "An Act Further to Amend the Act, Entitled, `An Act to Reduce into the One Several Acts concerning Slaves, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes,''' Shepherd,
Statutes at Large
3:17, 108, 123; Richmond, City Council Ordinances, May 10, 1830, LVA; Egerton,
Gabriel's Rebellion,
164-65.
119. Testimony of Ben, Sept. 15, 1800, Executive Papers, LVA; Egerton,
Gabriel's Rebellion,
148.
120. Linn Banks to Governor Floyd, Jan. 6, 1830, Executive Papers, LVA.
121. Virginia General Assembly, Legislative Petitions, Dec. 20, 1804, LVA.
122. Virginia General Assembly, "An Act to Amend the Act concerning Slaves, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes," April 7, 1831, "An Act to Amend an Act, Entitled an Act for Regulating the Navigation of James River, above the Falls of the Said River," Feb. 9, 1811, "An Act to Amend the Act Entitled, `An Act Reducing into One the Several Acts concerning Slaves, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes,'" Feb. 24, 1827, LVA; Virginia General Assembly, Legislative Petitions, Dec. 17, 1834, ibid.
123. Commonwealth v. Morton, May 1820, Hustings Suit Papers.
124. Berkeley, "Prophet without Honor," 187.
125. Virginia General Assembly, "An Act to Amend the Act concerning Slaves, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes," April 7, 1831, March 11, 1834, "An Act to Amend
 
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an Act, Entitled `An Act Regulating the Manner of Granting Licenses to Retail Ardent Spirits, and for Other Purposes,'" Feb. 27, 1832, LVA.
126. "An Act concerning Free Negroes and Mulattoes," Feb. 4, 1806, "An Act to Amend an Act, Entitled an Act for Regulating the Navigation of James River, above the Falls of the Said River," Feb. 9, 1811, ibid.
127. Commonwealth v. John McKenna, Commonwealth v. Thomas W. Stubbs, Oct. 1839, Commonwealth v. Oakly Philpotts and Harry, Aug. 1820, Hustings Suit Papers.
128. Virginia General Assembly, "An Act to Amend the Several Acts concerning Slaves, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes," March 11, 1834, March 7, 1831, "An Act to Amend the Act Entitled `An Act to Amend an Act to Reduce into One the Several Acts concerning Slaves, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes,'" Jan. 29, 1802, Jan. 31, 1805, "An Act to Prohibit the Owners of Ferries and Bridges from Allowing Slaves to Cross Certain Water Courses without the Permission of Their Owners," March 11, 1839, LVA; Richmond, City Council Minutes, April 8, July 17, 1834, LVA.
129. Richmond, City Council Ordinances, May 10, 1830, LVA.
130. Guild,
Black Laws of Virginia,
71.
131. Virginia General Assembly, "An Act to Amend the Act Entitled An Act to Amend an Act to Reduce into One the Several Acts concerning Slaves, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes," Jan. 29, 1802, Jan. 31, 1805, "An Act to Amend an Act, Entitled `An Act Regulating the Manner of Granting Licenses to Retail Ardent Spirits, and for Other Purposes,' Passed April 13th, 1831," Feb. 27, 1831, LVA.
132. Commonwealth v. Iris, and Commonwealth v. Titus, Jan. 1814, Commonwealth v. Will, May 1815, Commonwealth v. Nelson Hylton, Nov. 1829, Hustings Suit Papers.
133. Commonwealth v. M.P. Shop, Aug. 1819, ibid.
134. Commonwealth v. William Crane, March 1814, Commonwealth v. Pleasant Warren, Jan. 1822, Commonwealth v. John McDonough, Jan. 1823, ibid.
4. Maturation of the Urban Industrial Slave System, 1840-1860
1.
Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk, and Portsmouth Business Directory, 1859-1860; Daily Dispatch,
Oct. 6, 1854.
2. Berlin and Gutman, "Natives and Immigrants," 1182.

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