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...

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

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

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

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...

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

This 1662 law incorporated the Roman principle of partus sequitur ventrem, referred to as partus, which held that a child inherited the status of its...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

enslaved, his mother was free; therefore, he was free as well (partus sequitur ventrem). In 1829, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, with the assistance...

Nadir of American race relations The Negro Motorist Green Book Partus sequitur ventrem Plantations Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Reconstruction Amendments...

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...

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

Legitimacy (family law) Marriage of enslaved people (United States) Partus sequitur ventrem Plaçage, interracial common law marriages in French and Spanish...

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

Nadir of American race relations The Negro Motorist Green Book Partus sequitur ventrem Plantations Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Reconstruction Amendments...

1705. Since 1662, slave law had incorporated the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, saying that children born in the colony took the social status...