Assertion: parish's child | /r/HasProperty | born into the status of the mother
Facets:
value: under most southern state slave laws
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Even in the 19th century, after the United States acquired this territory in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, some mixed-race American slaves were able to win freedom suits by proving Indian ancestry in their maternal line; under most southern state slave laws, children were born into the status of the mother.