One legal case here  ruled that escaped white indentured servants would be whipped and returned to service while an African servant would be forced into slavery; that case was In re John Punch.
One legal case here  ruled that escaped white indentured servants would be whipped and returned to service while an African servant would be forced into slavery; that case was In re John Punch. One governor of this region tried to explore westwards and once named a river the Euphrates during the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition. A deputy governor of this colony issued 81 draconian provisions called Dale's Laws. Its First Families were the descendants of Cavaliers that came to this colony because of Sir William Berkeley's Royalist tendencies during the English Civil War, which earned it the moniker the "Old Dominion." For 10 points, name this British colony home to the House of Burgesses and Jamestown.
One legal case here  ruled that escaped white indentured servants would be whipped and returned to service while an African servant would be forced into slavery; that case was In re John Punch.
Virginia Colony 