Partus sequitur ventrem (lit. 'that which is born follows the womb'; also partus) was a legal doctrine passed in colonial Virginia in 1662 and other English...

their owners, as children born to slave mothers were also slaves (partus sequitur ventrem). As property, the people were considered merchandise or units...

followed by other colonies, they had established a law, known as partus sequitur ventrem, that said a child's status followed that of the mother. Separately...

free, because the mother was free (according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which the colonists incorporated into law). While numerous tribes...

the Virginia Colony passed a law incorporating the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, ruling that children of enslaved mothers would be born into slavery...

flagrantly practiced interracial, common-law marriages with slaves (see Partus sequitur ventrem). To help regulate the relationship between slave and owner, including...

Horniblow family who owned a local tavern. Under the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, both Harriet and her brother John were enslaved at birth by the...

the social status of their mother, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, regardless of the father's race or citizenship. This overturned...

Peggy's white enslaver, thus he was enslaved under the doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem. When James was 18, his father brought him to Holly Springs, hiring...

their owners. After 1662, when Virginia adopted the legal doctrine partus sequitur ventrem, sexual relations between white men and black women were regulated...

Virginia and other colonies incorporated a principle known as partus sequitur ventrem or partus, relating to chattel property. The legislation hardened the...

social status of their mother, according to the Roman principle of partus sequitur ventrem. This meant that the children of slave women were born into slavery...

enslaved mothers were considered enslaved under the principle of partus sequitur ventrem: the enslaved status of a child followed that of the mother. Betty...

as early as 1662. Virginia incorporated the Roman principle of partus sequitur ventrem into slave law, saying that children of enslaved mothers were born...

until 1978 and in vitro pregnancies. Matriarchy Matrifocal family Partus sequitur ventrem Wehali Neanderthals may have been patrilocal in mating patterns...

children to survive to adulthood. Enslaved since birth, according to partus sequitur ventrem, Hemings grew up on Jefferson's Monticello plantation, where his...

older brother Joseph, were born free according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem. Solomon described his mother as a quadroon, meaning that she was...

free Negro population: children born to colored free women (see Partus sequitur ventrem) mulatto children born to white indentured or free women mixed-race...

that 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...

persons and children of enslaved mothers, under the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, were excluded. Also, until the 20th century, the citizenship status...

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children were born into slavery, through a legal doctrine known as partus sequitur ventrem. They were classified as mulattoes, a former term for a multiracial...

Starting with Virginia in 1662, colonies adopted the principle of partus sequitur ventrem in slave law, which said that children born in the colony were...

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The Virginia Colony passed a law incorporating the principal of partus sequitur ventrem, ruling that children of enslaved mothers would be born into slavery...

governor, Berkeley oversaw the implementation of a policy known as partus sequitur ventrem, which mandated that all babies born to enslaved parents take the...

born to white mothers were considered free by the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, by which children took the social status of their mothers, a principle...

mothers, they were born into slavery, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662. Outside of the United...

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their mother at birth, under the Roman legal principle known as partus sequitur ventrem. Thus all children born to enslaved mothers were legally slaves...