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In the Northern United States, some states legalized marriages between enslaved people. In New York, bondsmen and women were allowed to marry, and their children were legitimate with the passage of the Act of February 17, 1809. Tennessee was the only slave state that allowed for marriage among enslaved people with the owner's consent.
This practice continued into the 1800s. In some cases, especially for young women or children, Native American families adopted captives to replace members they had lost. Among those native to the modern Southeastern United States, the children of slaves were considered free.
Between 1790 and 1860, about one million enslaved people were forcefully moved from the states on the Atlantic seaboard to the interior in a Second Middle Passage. [41] This normally involved the separation of children from their parents and of husbands from their wives.
Reséndez notes in his book about the subject, “The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America," that most Native American slaves were women and children, in contrast to ...
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 ...
Enslaved people were treated as a commodity by owners and traders alike, and were regarded as the crucial labor for the production of lucrative cash crops that fed the triangular trade. [5] [6] [page needed] The enslaved people were treated as chattel assets, similar to the legal treatment of farm animals. Enslavers passed laws regulating ...
At around 16 years of age she announced her intention to marry a man referred to only as "Negro Charles". [2] A 1664 [b] Maryland law outlined the legal status of a free woman who voluntarily married an enslaved man: she would serve the master of her husband until his death, and any offspring of their union would be born into slavery.
Michigan had a law that allowed children under age 16 to marry if given parental and judicial consent.