1 Dez 1662 Jahr - Virginia Law (partus sequitur ventrem)

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The law stated that enslaved status of children dependent on the status of the mother (in opposition to the English law, where the status of a child depended on the father). Now, enslaved women gave birth to generations of children that were seen as commodities and that allowed America to become a slave nation. The law is an aftermath of the case of Elizabeth Key-Grinstead

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