HIST 05150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Town Meeting, Puritans, Permission Slip
27 Mar 2017
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Black codes: regulation of movement and activity of the enslaved due to white fear of slave revolts and runaways. Laws or ordinances passed by he house of burgesses or local government such as: Permission to leave the plantation only with a signed letter coming rom their plantation master/ owner. Without a signed letter enforcers can stop you asking to see the permission slip, if you do not have the permission slip then the slave is beaten. Virginia company creates an elected legislature for jamestown, virginia colony, august 1619. House of burgesses or lower house, evolves into the english parliamentary model with power of the purse . Emerging regional identity, these define all southern colonies. Covenant: (religious word, its roots) a contract or promise. Pushed literacy (important to teach kids to read) Doctrine: in the world, but not of the world . Church and state are one and the bible the 10 commandments is law.
