In a message dated 11/27/2013 3:41:09 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Atpowelljr(a)aol.com writes:
Mulatto slaves were so common in old Virginia that laws were enacted to
govern the condition of these offspring of masters and slaves._[34]_
(
http://home.comcast.net/~davidmartin/ppl/f/d/ab444345c8025b59bdf.html#_ftn3
4) What
if Abraham fathered the little boy by such a slave? If the mother herself
were a product of multiple generations of master/slave relations, little
James may have been only 1/8 or 1/16 black--which could easily have meant
he
appeared fully white, and in early 19th century Virginia this would have
made him legally white._[35]_
(
http://home.comcast.net/~davidmartin/ppl/f/d/ab444345c8025b59bdf.html#_ftn3
5) However, regardless of his appearance, any
child born to a slave woman would have been a slave under Virginia law.
In
a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1815, he explained this
circumstance to a young man who had recently visited Jefferson’s
plantation and
expressed confusion about the light-skinned slaves he saw there:
WHAT IS POSTED HERE, LEAVES PLENTY ROOM FOR WONDERING WHAT COULD HAVE
BEEN
SWEPT UNDER THE RUG????? CUZ AT
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