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Virginia Colony passes the Anti-Assembly Law.

Date: 1723

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The law forbids enslaved Black, mixed race, and Native people from gathering in groups of more than five. It makes any plot to conspire, plan, or strategize against slaveholders a felony, with a series of violent penalties based on the perceived severity of the act.