6. Religious control; slave control 1680: Governor Culpeper informed The Council of Virginia that a planned slave revolt in the Northern Neck had been quashed. The Council partly blamed masters for allowing slaves too much free time on Saturdays and Sundays, enabling them to “meete in great Numbers in making and holding of Funeralls for Dead Negroes,” which allegedly allowed the slaves to conspire. The remedy: require stricter execution of the laws “relateing to Negroes” and command “all Masters of families having any Negro Slaves, not to permit them to hold or make any Solemnity or Funeralls for any deceased Negroes.” Billings, Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century , 160.
15. African Importation to Virginia, pre-1700: the numbers began to increase more steadily Decade Virginia Carolinas 1680s 2,000 100 +/- 1690s 4,000 200 +/- Total 6,000 300 +/-
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17. Why did Virginia still have the largest number of slaves in 1860?
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19. Doing the numbers 27,300 voyages to the Americas 2007 or 2008, online: 35,000 voyages to the Americas 1999