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Subject:	Re: "black relatives."
From:	Anita Wills <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 6 Dec 2005 02:04:24 GMT
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As far as enumerators go; one of my ancestors was white in 1783, and Mulatto in 1785. They used the very scientific method of, "eyeballing", which brought about mixed results. 

Anita 
-- "J. Douglas Deal" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Just a number or two to help ground our speculations in evidence: in the
1860 federal census, 10.41% of the slaves were deemed by enumerators to be
"mulatto"; for 1850, the figure was 7.70%. For a study that investigates
the variables that seem to go along with high (or low) rates of
miscegenation, see Richard H. Steckel, "Miscegenation and the American
Slave Schedules," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 11:2 (Autumn
1980), 251-263.



Douglas Deal
Professor of History and Chair of History Department
State University of New York at Oswego
Oswego, NY 13126
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