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Yes it is descriptive of their coloring, one lighter than the other. Many documents are quite detailed in the physical descriptions of both enslaved and free blacks.
Selma Stewart
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Burnett <[log in to unmask]>
To: VA-HIST <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tue, Feb 17, 2015 5:19 pm
Subject: Language in 1808 Va Will
I am catching up on transcribing some wills and have run across this
language for the first time:
"3rdly I give to my son *Thomas *one negro boy by the name of
*Henry* (a black boy) to him and his heirs or assigns forever
4thly I give to my son *Charles Washington *one negro boy by the
name of *Henry * (a yellow boy) to him and his heirs or assigns
forever"
Does anyone understand the differentiation between the "black boy" and the
"yellow boy"?
Am I trying to read to much into this and it is in fact just a physical
description of the coloring?
--
Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL
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