WI: American Slavery where child of slave and master had to be set free from birth?

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Realistically, such a ruling would have to occur before the cotton gin bolstered slavery as much as it did. Either a large enough slave revolt could occur, that would lead to some states adopting laws on the treatment of slaves, or a scandal of some kind might cause attitudes to change.
 
Realistically, such a ruling would have to occur before the cotton gin bolstered slavery as much as it did. Either a large enough slave revolt could occur, that would lead to some states adopting laws on the treatment of slaves, or a scandal of some kind might cause attitudes to change.

Well as I noted, one such ruling did occur in OTL only to have a law passed in the Virginia colony. We would just need that law overturned by the courts.

And I think 1660 is before the cotton gin
 
AFAIK that was the way in the French possessions, like Haïti, which lead to the emergence of a "Free Negro" class, which struggled with the planteurs caste for rights and power, and favorised the end of slavery because it would make their own power swell.
So the consequences would be rather positive I think.
This is incorrect the Gen De Colueur ancien libres were quite powerful and not for the most part black. Oge's Revolt came not from the White elite (Gran blanc) rather the "poor white trash" who jealously sought to inhibit mixed race recognized children of their wealthy white counterparts.

The elite of color themselves were heavily involved with lavery, however given the limited land avaliable they were primarily indigo, coffee and cacao farmers in less favorable lands as compared to the rich sugarcane bottom lands. Still lucrative though.
 
Something I thought of, but, with the economical parts of the Southern colonies dominated by the English gentry, might we see the free POC resulting from this ruling moving westward and intermixing with the Scotch Irish trekkers in Appalachia?
 
Something I thought of, but, with the economical parts of the Southern colonies dominated by the English gentry, might we see the free POC resulting from this ruling moving westward and intermixing with the Scotch Irish trekkers in Appalachia?
Black-White people were the first to go through the Cumberland Gap. Like the Lumbee and Redbones of the southern frontier lands the Melungeons sought freedom from colonial laws by moving into Appalachia.
 
Black-White people were the first to go through the Cumberland Gap. Like the Lumbee and Redbones of the southern frontier lands the Melungeons sought freedom from colonial laws by moving into Appalachia.

Sweet well then with a larger population to draw from, maybe the intermixing will continue
 
Sweet well then with a larger population to draw from, maybe the intermixing will continue
Intermixing really doesn't do anything Melungeons, Lumbee and Redbones were all racist as fuck towards blacks and actively sought their disenfranchisment.
 
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