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6637. PERSONAL LIBERTY, Children of slaves.—
The reducing the mother to
servitude was a violation of the law of nature,
surely, then, the same law cannot prescribe
a continuance of the violation to her
issue, and that, too, without end, for if it
extends to any, it must to every degree of
descendants.—
Legal Argument.
Ford ed., i, 376.
(1770)
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