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No. Children of slave women are slaves even if their father is the
President of the United States! And surely if their father was "just an
Indian."
Paul Finkelman
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> It is true that the status of the child generally followed that of the
> mother; but I'm wondering if, in Virginia in the 1780s, a father's having
> Indian blood would trump that law. So, would the children of a slave
> woman be free if their father was part Indian?
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> Henry Wiencek
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>>The birth status of a child followed that of the mother. The child
>>would be a free born or slave born based on the mothers status at the
>>time of the birth. I have found reference in South Carolina to an
>>Indian woman being a slave as late as 1750. I don't know when the
>>enslavement of Indians ceased in Virginia.
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>>Deborah Byrd
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Paul Finkelman
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