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"Children of the plantation" is a euphemism used [by whom?] to refer to people with ancestry tracing back to the time of slavery in the United States in which the offspring was born to black African female slaves (either still in the state of slavery or freed) in the context of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Non-Black men, usually the slave ...
Prior to 1870’s post-emancipation census, enslaved individuals were often listed only by their first names, gender and age. “To put it in a nutshell, you’re looking for people listed as ...
A recent genetic study of over 6,000 Mexicans shows a near ubiquity of descent from enslaved people as well as slaveholders, with ancestries from West Africa observed in every Mexican state, “in ...
Cultures as diverse as Egypt, in Africa, and Korea, in Asia, have had the rule that the children of enslaved women are born slaves themselves; towards the end of the first millennium AD, most slaves in Egypt were born to enslaved women. [5] A few years later, in 1036, Korea passed legislation whereby the children of slaves were also born slaves ...
Historian Vincent Tucker, president of the William Tucker 1624 Society, learned about his ancestors' history prior to being enslaved in the United States during a trip to Angola.
Scholar Arlene R. Keizer, writing about a work by the African-American artist Kara Walker, argues that she uses cut-paper silhouette to cast "the entire family, white and black, slave masters, slave mistresses, enslaved 'concubines,' and children (following the condition of the mother), into shadow...a dysfunctional family portrait, referencing both the biological families engendered through ...
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As their mother was enslaved, the children were all born into slavery under the principle of partus sequitur ventrum, [25] which had been part of the law since 1662. [26] They were three-quarters European in ancestry [ 27 ] and half-siblings to Wayles' daughters by his wives.