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aug 24, 1662 - Virginia laws decrees that children are born to the status of their mother

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If ones mother is slave, they are a slave. Different from English law. Children born to white men and their slaves are slaves. eg. Hemings family, Alexander Hamilton, etc.

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aug 24, 1662
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~ 364 years ago