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Subject:	Re: status of children born of slave mothers in 1858
From:	Paul Finkelman <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 1 Jun 2012 11:43:07 -0700
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True enough, but for your purposes this provision is a ban on manumission because the people you have been talking about wanted to stay and did stay. Before this local courts and the legislature gave exemptions. After 1851 they could not


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