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Originally Posted by MysticCat
No, there weren't laws forcing them into servitude. That would have been silly, since there were laws imposing the death penalty for sodomy, at least in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson tried to liberalize that by drafting a law that would instead punish sodomy by castration, but that didn't pass the Virginia legislature. Until the 1960s, sodomy was a felony in every state in the Union.
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Yes, but not unless that man told what he was doing and/or, some one knew and turned him in, then the likelihood of that man, or men, suffering the death penalty was not very likely. In essence, someone would have to know what was going on in the privacy of your home.
That is still not the same. I can't hide the fact that I am Black. Without even knowing one thing about how I am as a person, the very first thing you will notice about me is my skin color. My ancestors were forced into servitude and kept there by their skin color. An aspect of a person that can not be hidden.
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