Black Laws of Virginia: A Summary of the Legislative Acts of Virginia Concerning Negroes from Earliest Times to the Present, Guild, June Purcell; White, Karen; and Peters, Joan. This book illustrates the importance of researchers having knowledge of the laws affecting African Americans. These laws permeated the life of the eighteenth and nineteenth century Nego, whether slave or free; and by implication, the fabric of life for the white majority. (1936, repr. 1996), 249pp., softbound.