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Partus sequitur ventrem (lit. 'that
which is born
follows the womb'; also partus) was a
legal doctrine p****ed in
colonial Virginia in 1662 and
other English...
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Americas Genocide Slavery Slavery in the
United States Partus sequitur ventrem Indian Removal Act
Trail of
Tears Native American slave ownership Indian...
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American race
relations The
Negro Motorist Green Book
Partus sequitur ventrem Plantations Plessy v.
Ferguson (1896)
Reconstruction Amendments Reconstruction...
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white mothers were
considered free by the
principle of
partus sequitur ventrem, by
which children took the
social status of
their mothers, a principle...
- were born into slavery,
through a
legal doctrine known as
partus sequitur ventrem. They were
classified as mulattoes, a
former term for a
multiracial person...
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survive to adulthood. Born into slavery,
according to
partus sequitur ventrem,
Hemings grew up on Jefferson's
Monticello plantation,
where his mother...
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because the
mother was free (according to the
principle of
partus sequitur ventrem,
which the
colonists incorporated into law).
While numerous tribes used...
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Berkeley oversaw the
implementation of a
policy known as
partus sequitur ventrem,
which mandated that all
babies born to
enslaved parents take the legal...
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children took
their mother's status, i.e., the
principle of
partus sequitur ventrem. This led to
generations of
multiracial slaves, some of whom were otherwise...
- owners, as
children born to
slave mothers were also
slaves (partus
sequitur ventrem). As property, the
people were
considered merchandise or
units of labour...
