Assertion: slave's child | /r/CapableOf | take the status of the mother
Facets:
value: as under english common law
type: OTHER
value: than that of the father
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In 1662, Virginia passed a law that children of enslaved women (who were of African descent and thus foreigners) took the status of the mother, rather than that of the father, as under English common law.
text: Slave law had established that children in the colony took the status of their mothers.