Runaway slave ads for light skinned or white passing black people deconstruct cac hypocrisy

[get these nets]

Don't understand the video or her points. Once it became put into law , the American system was based on hereditary slavery. Legal status was based on what your mother's legal status was. If she was enslaved, that was your legal status.
Extreme skin color or phenotype differences existed because of rape and exploitation of Black women and girls..but the legal status of the children didn't change.

Still dont understand her points.
.I dismissed this woman as just another random YTer, until I saw that she was cosigned by a guy who is an actual genealogist, and happens to be her cousin.

But I dont get the point of people avoiding content from experts in the field, to watch vids of random people who probably dont know much more than them about the topic being discussed.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Not every mullato is the child of a slave master.

This is true but it goes back to my point that mulattos who didn't come from white fathers NEVER inherited any wealth

So of course 63 percent of mullatos were slaves.

which shows that the perception that it was a given, that mixed types like Rashida back in the days of slavery had it better than their darker kin, is a myth

In the Deep South, only 17% of the mulatto population was free, 83% enjoyed the experiences of bondage with their darker, more African kin

And you do know the difference between house slaves and field slaves.

There were dark skinned house slaves and light skinned/mixed field slaves

just as there were dark skinned house slaves and dark skinned wealthy free people of color


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Charles Syphax holding his grandson, ca. 1865.

The Syphaxes were one of the most influential enslaved families at Arlington. Charles Syphax oversaw the dining room at Arlington House and was the unofficial leader of the Arlington enslaved community. The son of a free black itinerant Alexandria street preacher and an enslaved woman from Mount Vernon, Syphax was one of the fifty-seven enslaved people who came to Arlington from Mount Vernon with George Washington Parke Custis in 1802.

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you also had poor mulatto/white looking slaves who suffered in bondage!

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

This is true but it goes back to my point that mulattos who didn't come from white fathers NEVER inherited any wealth




which shows that the perception that it was a given, that mixed types like Rashida back in the days of slavery had it better than their darker kin, is a myth

In the Deep South, only 17% of the mulatto population was free, 83% enjoyed the experiences of bondage with their darker, more African kin

There were dark skinned house slaves and light skinned/mixed field slaves

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you also had poor mulatto/white looking slaves who suffered in bondage!

It says clear as day in your post the mullatos was house negros. And we all know the house negros form of slavery was not on the same level. And house negros received benefits

 

[IllmaticDelta]

It says clear as day in your post the mullatos was house negros.

It didn't say all or most mullatos were house slaves, it said that many house slaves were offspring of the darker house slaves (before you can get to a mulatto, you have to start with an african)

as you will see below, the often repeated stories of preferential treatment for light skins and how it played out in the house slave vs field slave dynamic, was really on a case by case basis with it mainly being a thing in the Deep South (3 tier caste systems almost in a Latin American sense),

not the Upper South wherere most MULATTOS existed!

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Here are two stories about mullato slave women in the Deep South; contrasting the ways they were treated, and how it played into the field slave vs house slave dynamic

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20th century scholars coming to the conclusion that myth of mixed race individuals getting better treatment. simply because of being mixed race, was overstated

And we all know the house negros form of slavery was not on the same level. And house negros received benefits

Once again, most house negroes were dark skinned

and no, the benefits they received were superficial while putting them in harms way, in a way that field slaves were able to avoid

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Not that it’s greater than lineage. Not saying that.

It’s just that you came out White. You can still acknowledge your parents and your lineage. It’s just that technically, if you were walking around the world and no one had any knowledge of your background, if you present as White…the world sees and treats you as a White person.

Somebody with white skin and straight hair ain’t Black. They have enough admixture for them to come out like that, you have to acknowledge their actually lineage; all of it.

White folks didn’t want to do that because of racism. Even then they used terms like mulatto or quadroon to acknowledge someone’s ancestry. They would stop someone from “passing” if they could track their background, but even then they acknowledged and tracked their European ancestry because those folks looked a certain way.

You still think she’s Black because of the one drop rule. She’s mixed. She’s literally mixed. That isn’t fully acknowledged by whites because of their hatred and how they wanted to structure American society. Anywhere else on this planet, a person who is half Black or less is not considered a fully Black person.

It's not that simple because Genotype and Phenotye don't fully correlate, which is why Aframs/USA go by descent-->identity. Phenotypes especially when you have a multigen mixed element, are very random...



This man was like 70% Euro and 30% African (non-biracial) and passed for white

his sister of the same parentage, COULD NOT PASS FOR WHITE and looks more obviously of African descent

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Same here, Anita Hemmings (non-biracial) pass for white but her full brother, looked clearly "Black"

Anita Florence Hemmings (June 8, 1872 – 1960)

was the first African-American woman to graduate from Vassar College.[1] After graduation she became a librarian at the Boston Public Library.

one of the reasons she was exposed was because her brother came to visit her:

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Chemistry Class of 1897, including Frederick J. Hemmings (center, 4th from left), ca. 1897.

Frederick John Hemmings

'97 was admitted to MIT in 1893 as a regular student in Chemistry (Course V). With the exception of his junior year, his academic record at MIT was generally excellent, showing honors, credits, and passes in most subjects.

Hemmings's final thesis was entitled "The Change that Glucose Undergoes During Fermentation." The study comprised 27 pages of text plus graphs. Its aim, as laid out in the introduction, was "to closely watch samples of glucose during the progress of natural fermentation, in order to determine the manner in which their structure breaks down, the influence of their composition on their stability and if possible to throw any light on their molecular structure." Hemmings concluded that the speed of hydrolysis in different starches was alike, regardless of the relative complexity of their molecular structures.

After MIT, Hemmings worked as a chemist with Henry Carmichael, Analytical and Consulting Chemist in Boston. Around 1911, he left to accept a position as assistant chemist at the U.S. Navy Yard in Charlestown, MA. He was promoted to associate chemist or chemist by 1926 and to chief chemist by 1944, retiring before 1948.

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this guy (non-biracial) has around the range of Euro admx as Rashida and COULD NEVER be anything other than "Black"

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Another myth...that really ONLY happened with a minority of the mixed types in the Lower/Deep South (Upper South mulattos were heavily descended from white women and afrodescended men, so they weren't inheriting any wealth from the white community) but most mulattos in the Deep South weren't free, they instead were mainly in bondage with their darker kin where they were obviously NOT inheriting any wealth from their white fathers