Virginia’s 1625 census treated resident Africans as neither aged nor free

Evidence

The 1625 Virginia census did not list the ages or dates of arrival for most Africans. Nor did the census list any of them—despite in some cases the fact that they had resided in Virginia for six years—as free. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 90

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Census records before 1870 did not count formerly enslaved people as humans — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 193; Colonial statistics failed to capture the perceived status of poor Europeans — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 929; Colonial census categories could define away inconvenient poverty by racial reclassification — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 940 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Census records before 1870 did not count formerly enslaved people as humans — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 193; Colonial statistics failed to capture the perceived status of poor Europeans — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 929; Colonial census categories could define away inconvenient poverty by racial reclassification — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 940 (+1 more)