On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:17:56 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

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

colloquially known as the 'one-drop' rule.

your pal,
blake