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?
>
> Henry Wiencek
>
>
>>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.
>>
>>Deborah Byrd
>>
>
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