Footsteps from the Past V – Mother and Daughter. Duke of Gloucester Street. The Hartwell Perry Tavern is the white building depicted on the left, at the end of the street.
16x20 Fine arts print on canvas with gallery wrap.
© 2019 Suzanne E. Denion. All rights reserved.
In 1662, the General Assembly of Virginia determined that any child born to an enslaved woman would also be a slave.[1]Relatively few women slaves during this period were runaways, and when they did run, they commonly escaped with their children. The mother-daughter relationship in the slave community during the colonial period was often the most enduring and cherished.[2]
[1]https://www.history.org/history/teaching/slavelaw.cfm
[2]White, Deborah Gray. Ar’n't I a Woman, New York City, 1999