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mtairyguy

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1. Some enslaved their own children.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 09:12 PM

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Partus sequitor ventrum. That which is born follows the womb. A child born to a slave mother was a slave, notwithstanding the whiteness of the child’s father and owner.

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