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Anita Wills wrote:
> What if they do have black blood (whatever that means)? My understanding is that humans migrated out of Africa, so there are varying strains of "Black Blood" in all of us. By the way blood is not black, it is blue until the air hits it, and then it turns red.
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> Anita
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> -- Laura Fortune <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have just read an article in the Arcade@Home that claims that Thomas
> Jefferson was our first president with black blood. Do any of the
> historians on this list have any information on this allegation? The artcle
No.
> also states that Andrew Jackson was the son of an Irish wonan who married a
I've spent a lot of my life in the Carolinas
and Tennessee, all three of which claim Andy
Jackson. That's one of the most ridiculous
things I've ever heard. His wife was
literally hounded to death because Jackson
and she married before her divorce was final:
just imagine what his antagonists would have
done if Jackson's father, who did die when he
was very young, had been black.
> black man, that Abraham Lincoln was the illegitimate son of an African man
There's a lot of speculation about Lincoln's
true parentage, but none of it as to African
ancestry that I've heard. There is some oral
tradition in western ("Upstate") South
Carolina that Nancy Hanks, his mother, had an
affair with John C. Calhoun, and that Robert
Lincoln was paid to marry the pregnant Nancy
and get her out of the state. There is some
speculation that Lincoln may have had some
American Indian ancestry.
> and allegedly an Ethiopian woman, that Warren Hardng had black ancestors on
I've heard that Warren Harding _may_ have had
some black ancestry. I've never seen any
documentation.
> both sets of parents, and that Calvin Coolidge claimed his mother was dark
> because of mixed Indian ancestry. I have never heard of any of these
> before. Is there any truth here?
It's possible Coolidge may have had some
American Indian ancestry as it's possible for
most of us, but I think that speculation
comes from his legendary taciturnity, but
being taciturn is also identified with rural
New Englanders of Coolidge's era.
Elizabeth Whitaker
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