Assertion: slave's child | /r/HasProperty | free
Facets:
value: from degrading and inhumane treatment
type: OTHER
value: legally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Some slaves earned enough money to buy their own freedom, which would mean that their children could be free also.
text: For instance, they could marry and their children were considered free citizens.
text: The record showed that a similar provision would apply to Rit's children, and that any children born after she reached 45 years of age were legally free, but the Pattison and Brodess families ignored this stipulation when they inherited the slaves.
text: Additionally, it declares that all children have the right to an education and to be free from degrading and inhumane treatment.
text: Children born to white mothers were free, even if they were mixed-race.
text: Children born to free mixed-race mothers were also free.
text: that is, the children of slaves were free—while in the Americas, children of slave mothers were considered born into slavery.
text: With these new laws of the mid-1600s, the mother’s legal status now determined whether a child was free or not at birth.