While the term "mulatto" may be used to describe "Natives" by some,
I believe it technically refers to a person whose ancestry is Negro and Caucasian.
That's the meaning it had when I was growing up in Virginia.
--
Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Anita Wills <[log in to unmask]>
> While researching for my book, I found instances of Free Blacks & Mulattoes
> (another name for Native), who owned slaves. One of my ancestors owned, and
> freed slaves, (including a female who married his brother). Since Natives
> and Free Blacks were under siege, it is highly unlikely they would have held
> large amounts of slaves. Slavery was an international business with ships
> leaving slave states headed for European Markets. That meant a requirement
> for a shipping industry, and connections that Free Blacks and Natives did
> not have.
>
> Anita
>
>
> >From: Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: SLAVE OWNERSHIP BY NATIVE AMERICANS IN VIRGINIA
> >Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:29:05 -0500
> >
> >By statute, blacks and Native Americans were barred from buying and owning
> >white servants in 17th century Virginia. Indian slave ownership existed in
> >the deep South but not apparently in the upper South.
> >
> >Harold S. Forsythe
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Basil Forest" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:24 AM
> >Subject: SLAVE OWNERSHIP BY NATIVE AMERICANS IN VIRGINIA
> >
> >
> >>Does anyone know of any research or articles on the ownership of slaves by
> >>Native Americans in Virginia?
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