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In which way does Act XII, Laws of Virginia MOST directly support the chattel slave system?

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The correct answer is B) It outlines a scenario in which an enslaved mother's children remain slaves.

That is why women often fetched a high price because they could get new children who would automatically be enslaved. There are many stories where desperate mothers even killed their own children so as to not have them suffer the way they did.
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