I've been doing an experiment lately, since I have a bunch of free time. I've been looking into the revisionist black history world. I have a technique that I use on all subjects. Start with the official story, look at the revisionists' proof, weigh it out.
On the subject of black Native Americans, I recently read a book, I wanna say last Thursday-
Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples- by this guy. This is his seminal work.
Jack Douglas Forbes (January 7, 1934 – February 23, 2011) was an American historian, writer, scholar, and political activist, who specialized in
Native American issues. He is best known for his role in establishing one of the first
Native American studies programs (at
University of California Davis). In addition, he was one of the cofounders of
D-Q University, a prominently Native American college in
Davis, California.
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Starting around pg 249, he discusses us specifically by state: the laws, statutes, and court decisions. All up and down the east coast. What he found was that, overall, delineation was very wishy washy. The only natives clearly enumerated as such were the ones on reservations. Otherwise, they were free persons of color just like whatever free bp. On occasion, they were counted on the census as 'M,' mulatto. He concludes that, going forward, social scientists have to stop looking at 'free people of color' as a sort of proto- 'AfroAmerican' (his term) because it literally included everybody who wasn't white, except for three categories: unmixed Indians on reservations, unmixed Indians living in known Indian towns, and unmixed Africans.
I poked around some more and found that there was mass recategorization done during Jim Crow, pushing many well-established lines from more ambiguous categories straight into negro.
The Racial Integrity Act required that all
birth certificates and
marriage certificates in Virginia to include the person's
race as either "white" or "
colored".
The Act classified all non-whites, including Native Americans, as "colored".[2]..
Indians reclassified as colored
As registrar, Plecker directed the reclassification of nearly all Virginia Indians as
colored on their birth and marriage certificates. Consequently, two or three generations of Virginia Indians had their ethnic identity altered on these public documents. Fiske reported that Plecker's tampering with the vital records of the Virginia Indian tribes
made it impossible for descendants of six of the eight tribes recognized by the state to gain federal recognition, because they could no longer prove their American Indian ancestry by documented historical continuity
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Lastly, its so interesting to me that people have such strong opinions on shyt they never even read a book about. They weren't importing African men and women at the same rate, so who you think was reproducing? Wasn't enough wm in the colony to do the job. I mean, it's right on the damn wiki
However, Carolinians had more of a preference for African slaves but also capitalized on the Indian slave trade combining both.
[40] By the late 1700s records of
slaves mixed with African and Native American heritage were recorded.
[41] In the eastern colonies it became common practice to enslave Native American women and African men with a parallel growth of enslavement for both Africans and Native Americans.
[40] This practice also lead to
large number of unions between Africans and Native Americans.[42] This practice of combining African slave men and Native American women was especially common in South Carolina.
[40]
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That's as far as I got.