Chapter 3

Quiz for Document 3-3: An Act for Suppressing Outlying Slaves (1691)

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Question 1

An Act for Suppressing Outlying Slaves was most likely created by the Virginia legislature in order to prevent



Question 2

How did the law deal with slave owners who might free a black or mixed-race (“mulattoe”) slave within Virginia?



Question 3

How did the law address children born to white males and black or mixed-race females?



Question 4

The motivation for the House of Burgesses to tighten explicitly racial slave codes in 1691 likely resulted from