On Sat 21 Jun 2008 05:51:43a, Kathleen told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>> On Fri 20 Jun 2008 10:19:51a, Kathleen told us...
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>>>Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>>>>No, I wouldn't. However, I see no reason why whites would necessarily
>>>>celebrate the end of slavery. We weren't slaves.
>>>
>>>Not *then*. But it's certainly a scourge that might have spread based
>>>on various bogus racial or socio-economic standards.
>>
>>
>> I doubt that would have ever happened in the South where black slavery
>> predominated and there was far more racial distinction than class
>> distinction.
>
> But what happens when racial lines blur? There were slaves whose
> fathers and grandfathers were white.

For many years I believe there was a law that a certainly very low
percentage of "black" made you totally black. This was true long after the
Emancipation.



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Wayne Boatwright
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