Date Thesis Awarded
4-2015
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
History
Advisor
Julie Richter
Committee Members
Jody Allen
Monika Gosin
Abstract
This paper analyzes how the language used in 17th-century laws and court cases refers to enslaved Africans and other servants, and it explores what this language reveals about regional differences in how Virginia colonists conceptualized ethnicity and labor in their society.
Recommended Citation
Courtney, Timothy A., "Black Slaves, Christian Servants: Race and Legal Identity in Northampton and Middlesex Counties, Virginia, 1632-1705" (2015). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 191.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/191
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