Slave codes criminalized even self-provisioning, assembly, and education of enslaved people

Evidence

WHEREIN, a particular people are allowed to make slaves of people after the 1739 revolt where people convinced tools useful in implementing their people’s freedom had been stolen from them pursued people to a river shallow enough for people to cross on horseback & some of the people leapt into the river kicking their legs like people on the riverbank kicking the legs of the horses & the people on the horses while some people managed to briefly evade retrieval by people who could not see the people they pursued could not be retrieved, People, because your body belongs to you, & certainly not to the kind of people who devised laws to make properties of people after the people at the river were captured, their heads put on stakes along the road & people who briefly eluded pursuit before being recouped or returned to people so afraid of working for themselves they made it illegal for other people to work for themselves, grow their own food, congregate & educate their own people, without say-so of the kind of people who come after people pursuing freedom for their people while pursuing freedom for the people who come after their people. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 256

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s stated interest in distinguishing specific contested empirical claims (what the 1740 Act actually prohibited) from the framing thesis. — connects to: Early capitalist states criminalized the newly dispossessed poor as vagabonds — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 72