However, the Act held the caveat that the children would be subject to apprenticeship. These same children would be required to serve their mother's owner until age twenty-eight for males, and age twenty-five for females. The law defined the children of slaves as a type of indentured servant, while scheduling them for eventual freedom.
However, the Act included a condition that the children would undergo apprenticeship. They were required to work under their mother's owner until they reached age twenty-eight if male or age twenty-five if female. According to the law, these children of slaves were indentured servants meant to eventually gain freedom.