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'Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.'
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'Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.'
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Illegitimacy is the cause of most social problems costing me taxes.
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* “Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.”
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In the present Instance, the Precaution of the Negro Chief shews him not to have been at all destitute, either of sound Sense or paternal Affection; he thought it for his own Interest, and for that of his Family, to send one of his Sons to France; but that Son was born of a Slave, which is a Circumstance among the Negroes that creates a kind of Illegitimacy; and we shall see that he was not altogether so cautious, when he thought fit to trust another Child in English Hands.
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The pioneering study is Gerald Groenewald "Parents, Children and Illegitimacy in Dutch Colonial Cape Town, c. 1652 – 1795," unpublished paper, 2006.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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See Gerald Groenewald, "Parents, Children and Illegitimacy in Dutch Colonial Cape Town, c. 1652 – 1795," paper presented to the 'Company, Castle and Control' research group meeting, 2006, University of Cape Town, 4, 21. back
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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“The Illegitimacy of Constantine and the Birth of the Tetrarchy.”
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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For illegitimacy in the nineteenth century, see V.C. Malherbe, "In Onegt Verwekt: Law, Custom and Illegitimacy in Cape Town, 1800 – 1840," JSAS 31: 1 (2005), 163 – 85. back
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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