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**HaroldMY** · 05-21-2012, 09:39 PM

This is how it all started:

The Invention of the One-Drop Rule in the 1830s North

Thing is, whenever the subject comes up, its creation always get pegged on Southerners for some reason.

This is interesting from that link.

That “white-looking” is the current form of expression is indisputable. With one exception, every textbook or monograph, published since the turn of the twentieth century that the present author has uncovered, refers to “white-looking” slaves. No modern author can bring himself or herself to state the obvious fact that tens of thousands of White people (by the usage of the time) were enslaved in the antebellum South. Today’s academic canon is that they were merely “white-looking”; they were not “really white” (whatever that means). Just think of all the white Americans descended from those slaves that are not aware that their ancestors were slaves.

05-21-2012, 09:39 PM	#25
HaroldMY Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 512 Senior Member	This is how it all started: The Invention of the One-Drop Rule in the 1830s North Thing is, whenever the subject comes up, its creation always get pegged on Southerners for some reason. This is interesting from that link. That “white-looking” is the current form of expression is indisputable. With one exception, every textbook or monograph, published since the turn of the twentieth century that the present author has uncovered, refers to “white-looking” slaves. No modern author can bring himself or herself to state the obvious fact that tens of thousands of White people (by the usage of the time) were enslaved in the antebellum South. Today’s academic canon is that they were merely “white-looking”; they were not “really white” (whatever that means). Just think of all the white Americans descended from those slaves that are not aware that their ancestors were slaves.
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