Told you Jordon's book was an eye opener!!! <grin>
At 04:23 PM 2/27/03 -0500, you wrote:
>person giving the information to the census taker. Thus, there is some room
>for error in the case of those blacks who could, and preferred to, pass as
>white citizens and so informed the census takers. I don't know to what
>JDS
You have to decide if it was an error for black who could pass as white to
say they were white to census takers. If the person had a parentage that
indicated more than 50% white blood, they were entitled to say they were
white.
Anne
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