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February 20, 2010
In 1670, Virginia passed a law forbidding Negroes from buying white people. This was fifty-one years after the Negro had arrived in chains.
The same law was repeated in 1748. Free Negroes bought white people in such high numbers in Louisiana, that the state made a similar law in 1818.
*Notes, Africa's Gift To America, by J.A. Rodgers
* The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Blogger Black Buzz says a more extensive article by Robert M.Grooms is forthcoming on said subject.
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