Black Colonists Excluded from the Requirement to Bear Arms
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Virginia’s colonial assembly… House of Burgesses enacts a colonial statute excluding black colonists from the requirement of possessing arms.
Virginia’s colonial assembly… House of Burgesses enacts a colonial statute excluding black colonists from the requirement of possessing arms.