In Search of a Color Line
An Examination of Colonial Law in Virginia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18933913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L L Hunt (0000-0001-9641-8556, University of Maryland, College Park, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 203-219 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1742-058X • E-ISSN: 1742-0598 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1742058x21000059 |
| OpenAlex | W3146780890 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 25 |
This research examines laws in the colony of Virginia created by a powerful landowning planter class that attempted to draw a color line separating three descent groups: an indigenous native population (Indian), an immigrant population from Europe (English), and an imported population from Africa (Negro). Textual analysis of the Laws of Colonial Virginia shows that the English lawmakers had to learn they were the White component of a color line; they did not, for many years, refer to themselves as White. Contrary to some widely held views that race relations began as soon as these groups came into contact at some point in the seventeenth century, the analysis of written law suggests it took over 100 years, until near the middle third of the eighteenth century in Colonial Virginia, before a definitive concept of race was socially-constructed and a color line was drawn in Black and White
Archaeology · Colonialism · Color line · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Immigration · Indigenous · Population · Sociology · American History and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Gender Studies · History
In the matter of color
Slave and citizen
New people
American Slavery, American Freedom
The Negro's and Indians Advocate
Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro
Becoming Free, Becoming Black
Christian Slavery
Many Thousands Gone
Abusing Hugh Davis
Foul Means
Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro
The Origins of American Slavery
White Over Black
The Origins of American Slavery
After Hugh
Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive
The Iberian Roots of American Racist Thought
Slave Law and the Social Structure
Slavery and the Genesis of American Race Prejudice
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |