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6638. PERSONAL LIBERTY, Children of slaves.—[continued].

That the bondage of the
mother does not under the law of nature,
infer that of her issue, as included in her,
is further obvious from this consideration,
that by the same reason, the bondage of the
father would infer that of his issue; for he
may with equal, and some anatomists say
with greater reason, be said to include all
his posterity.—
Legal Argument. Ford ed., i, 377.
(1770)