I have always found it amusing that white/anglo Virginia families would do anything to hide a genetic connection with a non-white person... except Pocahontas.  She has so many "white" descendants, it is no wonder she has been referred to as Virginia's Eve.  Even as a child, I thought the hypocrisy was unfathomable and downright silly.

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Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA


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> I would think the law passed in 1662 is the first to suggest that there was a 
> bi-racial Virginia...
> 
> 1662. Act XII. Children got by an Englishmen upon a Negro woman shall be bond 
> or free according to the condition of the mother, and if any Christian shall 
> commit fornication  with a Negro man or woman, he shall pay double the ones of 
> the fomer act.
> 
> Black Laws of Virginia - A Summary of the Legislative Acts of VA Concerning 
> Negroes from the Earliest Times to the Present
> June Purcell Guild
> 
> Selma Stewart
> 
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