Hudgins v. Wright
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hudgins-v-wright-266-8752205
title:
Hudgins v. Wright
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Hudgins v. Wright (1806) was a freedom suit decided in the favor of the slave Jackey Wright by the Virginia Supreme Court. She had sued for freedom for herself and her two children based on her claim of descent from Indian women. Indian slavery had been prohibited in Virginia since 1705. Since 1662, slave law had incorporated the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, saying that children born in the colony took the social status of their mothers. Her master Houlder Hudgins appealed the decision,
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1806 freedom suit in Virginia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudgins_v._Wright
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2023-03-15T10:41:23Z
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