Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Sat 21 Jun 2008 05:51:43a, Kathleen told us...
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>> 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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It was certainly true in New Orleans until well into the Twentieth
Century. White and black could not marry, even if the so-called "black"
had only 1/64th black blood.