hereafter be enacted to prohibit the migration of free persons of color
to this State; and if such person be an adult, he or she shall be sent
in like manner out of the Commonwealth; and if any persons having been
so sent off, shall hereafter return within the State, he or she so
offending shall be dealt with and punished in the same manner as is or
may be prescribed by law in relating to other persons of color returning
to the State after having been sent therefrome. Acts of the General
Assembly of Virginia, 1838, p. 76.

[3] The following enactments of the Virginia General Assembly will give
a better idea of the extent of this humiliation:

4. Be it further enacted that all meetings of free Negroes or
mulattoes at any school house, church, meeting-house or other place
for teaching them reading or writing, either in the day or night,
under whatsoever pretext, shall be deemed and considered as an
unlawful assembly; and any justice of the county or corporation,
wherein such assemblage shall be, either from his own knowledge, or
on the information of others, of such unlawful assemblage or
meeting, shall issue his warrant directed to any sworn officer or
officers, authorizing him or them to enter the house or houses where
such unlawful assemblage or meeting may be, for the purpose of
apprehending or dispersing such free Negroes or mulattoes and to
inflict corporal punishment on the offender or offenders at the
discretion of any justice of the peace, not exceeding 20 lashes.

5. Be it further enacted that if any white person or persons
assemble with free Negroes or mulattoes, at any school house,
church, meeting-house, or other place for the purpose of instructing
such free Negroes or mulattoes to read or write, such person or