The society at this time was divided by classes and not races and there were many interracial marriages as well. There were free black men and women at this time until the laws changed. Eventually, they passed laws to make all blacks slaves and the interracial couples left for the mountains from Virginia, so they would not become a part of the slave movement. The laws that were passed also took away the civil rights of free blacks.
They could no longer possess any arms, marry whites, vote, testify in court, own property; meet with other blacks totaling more than three in a public …show more content…
The African Americans could go to court to regain the rights to their former slave without any issues and then all of these rights were stripped from them. Did racism cause slavery or did slavery cause racism?
The mere fact that the whites sold the African Americans, chained the black men up on the ships from their homeland as they transported them to the mainland, allowed the women and children to walk freely on the ships displays preexisting slavery in my opinion. African Americans were forced to come to the mainland to be auctioned as an object and not a human being. The volume of blacks grew and subsequently the plantation owners started replacing the white servants and slaves with the