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In 1662, "partus sequitur ventrem" was passed and it meant that.

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Answer:in the matter of sex between free English men and “negro women,” the legal condition of the child should follow that of the mother.

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Partus sequitur ventrem aimed to attach a legal materiality to the enslaved woman's womb that enslave women's children and nullified the latter's claims to freedom, even when the father was free.
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