After court decisions exposed uncertainty in earlier rules, the Assembly made enslaved people competent witnesses for or against other enslaved defendants without requiring registry certificates. This expanded a narrow avenue for testimony among enslaved people but did not confer equal standing against white people or general civil equality. The change shows how the law’s limited recognition of enslaved testimony remained shaped by colonial control.
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Who could testify under the 1828 change described in the act?
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The law made enslaved people competent witnesses for and against other enslaved people in those trials.