Primary Source – The Negro Act of 1750
Paper details:
Read the following Wikipedia page to get a sense of the Negro Act of 1740 (Links to an external site.).
For your assignment, read through the primary source, Negro Act of 1740. Select a particular law, copy and paste it into your assignment, and answer the
following:
In your own words, explain what the law is saying.
In your own words, explain how this law represents either a break from, or staying consistent with “traditional” or “old world” slavery beliefs.
What impact do you think this would have had on free African Americans? What about slaves?