The 1619 arrival in Virginia of the first enslaved and indentured Africans to the new North American colonies immediately exposed both moral and legal dilemmas in regard to holding another human being in bondage. This TIPHC exhibit will be on display Feb. 4, 2020 to March 6, 2020, at the Cultural Center Gallery in the School of Architecture, we will display twenty posters highlighting separate legal detriments and remedies to African American oppression in the United States, and the people responsible for those edicts. From the Virginia Slave Codes of 1705, to the 13th U.S. Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, to the Emancipation Proclamation, and Civil Rights bills, we trace the legal path that Black Americans have navigated in seeking freedom, full citizenship, and participation in the democratic process.
