1. The Middle Passage

3. Colonial Laws
•Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from normal protections by the government was enacted.
• Maryland, 1664: The first colonial law about the mixing of races.
• Virginia, 1667: Christian baptisms would no longer affect the bondage of blacks or Indians, preventing enslaved workers from improving their legal status by changing their religion.
• Virginia, 1682: A law establishing the racial distinction between servants and slaves was enacted.
A 1691 Virginia law declared that any white man or woman who married a "Negro, mulatto, or Indian" would be banished from the colony forever.

10. Restraints