The correct answer for:U.S. slavery continued for 150 years. Black Africans were kidnapped from their own lands and shipped to the New World on the trans-Atlantic journey called the Middle Passage. Slave codes declared that the child of a slave was a slave, Is: Slave children. "Children of the plantation".
Explanation:
The slave code of the united states specified that the children of slaves would follow the condition of the mother so if the mother was a slave the children were going to inherit her slave condition. However, if the save offspring had a free mother the children were going to be a free child even though those were pretty rare cases. In most of the cases, the slave mother would have a few months to take care of the children, nevertheless, after that period, they were required to go back to their slave labors. They would carry the babies while they performed their duties.
