A History of the Episcopal Church (Third Revised Edition). Robert W. Prichard

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Court ruled in 1665 that a mixed-race Christian man named Manuel was to be treated as an indentured servant rather than permanently enslaved, the legislature responded with a 1667 act stating “that the sacrament of baptism ‘doth not alter the condition of the person as to his bondage or freedome.’”59 An act in 1670 let stand legislation (1655 and 1658) that classified enslaved Native Americans as indentured servants, but specified that non-Christians who arrived in the colony by ship (presumably from Africa or the Caribbean) were enslaved for life.60

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