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True or False: If a White slave owner and a Black enslaved woman had a child together, the child would be free under the law.
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True
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False
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True
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False
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False. In the context of historical laws in the United States, the offspring of a White slave owner and a Black enslaved woman would typically be enslaved, following the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which means that the status of the child was determined by the status of the mother.
False. In the context of historical laws in the United States, the offspring of a White slave owner and a Black enslaved woman would typically be enslaved, following the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which means that the status of the child was determined by the status of the mother.
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