Virginia Prohibits Interracial Marriage
The legislative assembly of Virginia enacted a law that any white person married to a black or mulatto is banished and could not stay in colony for more than three months after they are married.
- A mulatto child born to a white indentured servant would serve a 30-year term of indenture.
- A fine of 15 pounds sterling was levied against white women who gave birth to mulatto children. And if a woman could not pay the fine, she was condemned to serve five years as an indentured servant.