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Anne,
You will have to become conversant with genetics and recessive v.
dominant genes. Plus, you don't know if the slave had 1/4 black
ancestry or less or more. People aren't peas and cannot be bred as
such, nor assumed to behave as such.
Lyle
On Nov 1, 2008, at 9:46 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:
> Lyle,
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> Explain, if you will how Sally, who was 1/2 or 1/4 black could mate
> with a slave who was 1/4 black and produce all and only white/light-
> skinned children, and six of them at that. Seems to me that with six
> children, at least one of them would be considerably darker than the
> others. Are we discussing the difference between scientific
> possibilities and probabilities?
>
> Anne
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