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2004 MailRegarding Quakers and SlaveryFrom Calobe Jackson, Jr., January 6, 2004 Dear Ann: Benjamin Bannaker's grandmother, an indentured white servant, bought a slave, freed and married him. This happened so much in Virginia that the state passed laws against inter-racial marriage.* Women in need of male farmhands often had little choice than to buy a slave. Even stranger was the inter-relationship between free and slave parents. Many slaves were married to free persons. If the mother was free, the child was free. If the mother was a slave, the child was a slave. The status of the father had no effect on the social position of the child. The foundations of slavery were set up in the 17th century. Usually we associate them with the slavery of the nineteenth century. Best regards, *Editor's Note: In the 18th century Pennsylvania also passed statutes prohibiting inter-racial marriage. Click here for Pennsylvania's infamous "Black Codes." |
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