Youngblood
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This article is long, more of a blog, but it has quotes from people seeing white slaves at auctions.
Ive heard of 'yellow' slave children who resemble massa's white children but this is talking about blonde hair and blue eyed 'negros'.
Im aware of the one drop rule so technically they were not clasiffied as white.
I have yet to see this type of thing discussed. Anyway, im sure its not news but it is news to me.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/chance...om/2007/05/08/white-slaves-the-mulattoes/amp/
"One man–who to my inexperienced eyes seemed as white as myself, and whom I at once put down in my own mind as an Irishman, of the purest quality of the county of Cork–got up from his seat as I passed, and asked me to buy him." "I am a good gardener, your honour," said he, with an unmistakable brogue.
"I am also a bit of a carpenter, and can look after the horses, and do any sort of odd job about the house." "But you are joking," said I; "you are an Irishman?" "My father was an Irishman," he said. At this moment the slave-dealer and owner of the depot came up. "Is there not a mistake here?" I inquired.
"This is a white man." "His mother was a ******," he replied. "We have sometimes much whiter men for sale than he is. Look at his hair and lips. There is no mistake about him." Mackay was a Scotsman who had experienced a virtually white, brogue-speaking Irishman as a slave.
Ive heard of 'yellow' slave children who resemble massa's white children but this is talking about blonde hair and blue eyed 'negros'.
Im aware of the one drop rule so technically they were not clasiffied as white.
I have yet to see this type of thing discussed. Anyway, im sure its not news but it is news to me.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/chance...om/2007/05/08/white-slaves-the-mulattoes/amp/
"One man–who to my inexperienced eyes seemed as white as myself, and whom I at once put down in my own mind as an Irishman, of the purest quality of the county of Cork–got up from his seat as I passed, and asked me to buy him." "I am a good gardener, your honour," said he, with an unmistakable brogue.
"I am also a bit of a carpenter, and can look after the horses, and do any sort of odd job about the house." "But you are joking," said I; "you are an Irishman?" "My father was an Irishman," he said. At this moment the slave-dealer and owner of the depot came up. "Is there not a mistake here?" I inquired.
"This is a white man." "His mother was a ******," he replied. "We have sometimes much whiter men for sale than he is. Look at his hair and lips. There is no mistake about him." Mackay was a Scotsman who had experienced a virtually white, brogue-speaking Irishman as a slave.
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