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Definitions from Wikipedia (Partus sequitur ventrem)

noun:  (also partus) a legal doctrine passed in colonial Virginia in 1662 and other English crown colonies in the Americas which defined the legal status of children born there; the doctrine mandated that children of enslaved mothers would inherit the legal status of their mothers.


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