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In the Bill of Rights there are provisions that prohibit ex post facto laws and bills of attainder. There are also provisions that prohibit states from impairing contracts.
Women were denied equal rights, indentured servants were until they fulfilled their term, then africans were (however, it's important to realize that when africans were originally brought to Virginia in 1619 they were not immediately enslaved), Native Americans too, but they weren't colonists.
The Virginia Declaration of Rights was a model for the Bill of Rights.
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
The basic "rights" are contained in the first ten amendments.
James Madison is the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights
One of the provisions of the civil rights act of 1866 was that a person could not be discriminated against based on the color of their skin. It said that every person was to be treat as an equal.
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It banned bias in hiring.
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
Fifth and fourteenth
To have political rights in Virginia you would have to be male, own land, and be over 17