On Sat 21 Jun 2008 10:14:44a, George Shirley told us...

> 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.

Yep, that's the fraction I couldn't remember.

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Wayne Boatwright
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