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Several Christian revivals marked the Great Awakening throughout Britain and its colonies in the period 1730-40s. This Awakening enhanced the development of evangelicalism as a campaign among the Protestants. Moreover, evangelicals mainly instilled the regulatory works, conduct and transformed the common novel with a vibrant Christianity that was significant to the emotional life of family and home (Kidd, 2008). On the other hand, women gained a deep sense of religious passion and became independent in their choices where they would scrutinize their thoughts and share with other women or even write about them. Thus, the women became capable of describing their sphere more apparently, offering a restricted but positive task within the movement.

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            The Netherland Act regarded the petition of several Negroes that served the West India Company for long and released them from slavery and granted the Negroes lands for farming to support their livelihood. However, Negroes were bound to pay for their freedom individually as long as they lived and whoever failed to pay would return to the Company as slaves (Berlin, 2009). The men were also gratified to serve the Company when their services were needed on gaining fair pay from the Company. On the other hand, the Virginia Code enhanced white supremacy by creating separate trial courts, new property rights for the slave proprietors, apprehension of alleged runaways and prohibition of blacks from owning weapons or employing whites (Berlin, 2009). The Virginia laws stripped several held rights from the blacks and created a racial divide.