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Description:Chapters: Elizabeth Key Grinstead, Sally Fairfax, Samuel Mathews, Thomas Harwood. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elizabeth Key Grinstead (b. 1630 - d. c. after 1665) was the first woman of African ancestry in the North American colonies who sued for her freedom from slavery and won. Grinstead won her freedom and that of her young son John Grinstead on July 21, 1656. She sued based on the fact that her father was of white English ancestry and that she was a baptized Christian. Based on these two factors, she argued successfully against being enslaved for life. Grinstead's lawsuit in 1655 was one of the earliest freedom suits filed by a person with African ancestry in the English colonies. Partly in response to Key's suit, in 1662 the Virginia House of Burgesses passed a law mandating that the status of children born in the colony would follow the status of the mother, "bond or free," rather than the father, as had been the precedent in English Common Law. This was the principle of partus sequitur ventrum. This legislation hardened the boundaries of slavery and ensured that mixed-race children fathered by planters and overseers would be kept as slaves unless explicitly freed. It freed the fathers from responsibility of acknowledging the children as theirs, supporting them, arranging for apprenticeships, or emancipating them. It also allowed for holding in slavery people who looked European or white in appearance, for instance, Sally Hemings and her four surviving children, who may have been fathered by president Thomas Jefferson, or possibly his brother Randolph Jefferson. (Jefferson arranged for freedom - some indirectly - for Hemings and the four children, the only nuclear slave family to leave Monticello as free people.) Elizabeth Key or Ka...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2092798We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Warwick County, Virginia: Elizabeth Key Grinstead, Sally Fairfax, Samuel Mathews, Thomas Harwood. To get started finding People from Warwick County, Virginia: Elizabeth Key Grinstead, Sally Fairfax, Samuel Mathews, Thomas Harwood, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Chapters: Elizabeth Key Grinstead, Sally Fairfax, Samuel Mathews, Thomas Harwood. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elizabeth Key Grinstead (b. 1630 - d. c. after 1665) was the first woman of African ancestry in the North American colonies who sued for her freedom from slavery and won. Grinstead won her freedom and that of her young son John Grinstead on July 21, 1656. She sued based on the fact that her father was of white English ancestry and that she was a baptized Christian. Based on these two factors, she argued successfully against being enslaved for life. Grinstead's lawsuit in 1655 was one of the earliest freedom suits filed by a person with African ancestry in the English colonies. Partly in response to Key's suit, in 1662 the Virginia House of Burgesses passed a law mandating that the status of children born in the colony would follow the status of the mother, "bond or free," rather than the father, as had been the precedent in English Common Law. This was the principle of partus sequitur ventrum. This legislation hardened the boundaries of slavery and ensured that mixed-race children fathered by planters and overseers would be kept as slaves unless explicitly freed. It freed the fathers from responsibility of acknowledging the children as theirs, supporting them, arranging for apprenticeships, or emancipating them. It also allowed for holding in slavery people who looked European or white in appearance, for instance, Sally Hemings and her four surviving children, who may have been fathered by president Thomas Jefferson, or possibly his brother Randolph Jefferson. (Jefferson arranged for freedom - some indirectly - for Hemings and the four children, the only nuclear slave family to leave Monticello as free people.) Elizabeth Key or Ka...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2092798We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Warwick County, Virginia: Elizabeth Key Grinstead, Sally Fairfax, Samuel Mathews, Thomas Harwood. To get started finding People from Warwick County, Virginia: Elizabeth Key Grinstead, Sally Fairfax, Samuel Mathews, Thomas Harwood, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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