Just Like Your Mama: Slave Laws that Choked the Life and Freedom Out of Black Children

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Just Like Your Mama: Slave Laws that Choked the Life and Freedom Out of Black Children

By Angela L. Braden While researching my family history, I learned that my 4th grandfather, Dudley Braden, was born “free” because his mother was a white woman. When Dudley was born circa 1823, the law in Kentucky, as well as other slave states, declared that negro and mulatto children born of a slave woman would carry […]

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