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Anthony Johnson and his children's lives.
This is how,over his and his children's lives, laws slowly diminish the rights of African Americans -
Anthony Johnson owns land.
Anthony Johnson gains land from Captain Taylor. He and the Captain divided the cornfield so that they each had their own corn to tend to when they see fit. This is important because almost none of the negreo race owned any land of their own. Most of the time they were told that so they could pay off their debt because in order to own land they had more of a debt to pay. Also, because Johnson is setting a place in society for himself because he had a way to pay for supplies. -
Anthony Johnson petitions for his slave, John Casar.(cont.)
This doesn't last for long because there are many laws that are slowly destroying negreos rights. Some laws stated that they couldn't carry firearms. Others made free men become slaves because their mothers were slaves. -
Anthony Johnson petitions for his slave, John Casar.
Anthony keeps John Casar as an indentured servant longer than the time of service, eight years, and Casar heads to a white man and tells him this so that he could be set free. Johnson frees the negreo who goes into the service of the white man. Johnson later takes the man to court and wins back Casar as his servant. This is important because a negreo was able to take a white man to court and win. Johnson has continued to make his place in society by winning a court case against a white man. -
Act I.
This law states that a master can casually kill his slave with out being brought to court. This is important because it continues the decline in negreos rights. They are now able to be killed by their masters without the justice system looking into the matter. Because of this, slaves are more fearful of their masters and more likely to work more productivly. -
Act IV.
This law states that negreos cannot by Christian servants. They are only allowed to own non-Christian negreos. This is important because it once again limits the rights of the negreos. They no can only purchase certain people as their servants if they are free. There might not be enough non-Christian negreo servants for the free negroes to have one, leaving them to do their own work. This is not much different than when they were doing the same work for someone else. -
Act IV. (cont.)
Also, without enough servants, productivity would fall, resulting in less income for the free man meaning he might not be able to pay the bills or purchase enough supplies for his family and servants. -
Chap. IV.
This law states that negreos are no longer able to hold office. Because of this negreos have no say what so ever about anything that happens to them. Any law can be passed that would continue to diminish to negreo race without anybody to speak up for them. They would have no power to make a law to give them more rights or to rgain lost rights.
