Why was Slavery Legal In Virginia?

Answer 1

and if you have too search to get info then you are soo lame bi***, anyways here is the reason y! The first English colony in North America, Virginia, first imported Africans in 1619, a practice earlier established in the Spanish colonies as early as the 1560s.[2] Most slaves were black and were held by whites, although some Native Americans and free blacks also held slaves; there were a small number of white slaves as well.[3] Slavery spread to the areas where there was good-quality soil for large plantations of highly cash crops, such as tobacco, cotton, sugar, and coffee. The majority of slaveholders were in the southern United States, where most slaves were engaged in a work-gang system of agriculture. Such large groups of slaves were thought to work more efficiently if directed by a managerial class called overseers, usually white men.

Answer 2

Slavery was legal in Virginia due to the economic reliance on the labor of enslaved Africans to sustain the tobacco and agricultural industries. The presence of slavery was supported by laws that were created to regulate the institution and protect the interests of slave owners. Additionally, racial attitudes and beliefs perpetuated the idea that Africans were inferior and justified their enslavement.