VIRGINIA

"Prohibiting negroes, slave and free, from carrying

weapons including clubs." (The Los Angeles Times, "To

Fight Crime, Some Blacks Attack Gun Control," January

19, 1992)

"That all such free

Mulattoes, Negroes and Indians...shall appear without

arms." [7 The Statues at Large; Being a Collection of

all the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of

the Legislature, in the Year 1619, p. 95 (W.W. Henning

ed. 1823).] (GMU CR LJ, p. 67)

"An Act for Preventing

Negroes Insurrections." (Henning, p. 481) (GMU CR LJ,

p. 70)

In the December 1831

legislative session, Virginia entirely prohibited free

blacks from carrying arms. (Aptheker, p. 81) (Id., p.

338)