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According to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia incorporated into law in 1662, children were assigned the social status of their mother, regardless of their father's ethnicity or citizenship.

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According to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, since the mother had been proved a free woman at the time of her daughter's birth, Lucy also gained her freedom.

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