Some men freed both their slave mistresses and their mixed-race children, especially in the 20 years after the American Revolution, but southern legislatures made such manumissions more difficult.
有的男子赎买了他们的奴隶妻子和混血孩子，特别是在美国独立后的20年间，但是南方立法导致这种形式的解放变得更加困难。