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>From: Anita Wills <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: May 8, 2008 3:42 PM
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>Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Compilation of Va. "Racial Integrity" Laws
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>I am a non white descendants of Pocahontas, but Native/African mixtures are generally ignored. When African Slaves first arrived in the colony, some were assisted by Natives in escaping slavery. Freed slaves fled to Reservations, or followed Native Trails North to freedom. Many freed slaves and natives lived in close proximity to each other, and intermixed. The descendants of natives who intermixed with whites are more accepted, then those who intermixed with blacks.
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>Anita
>
>> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 18:21:47 +0000
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Compilation of Va. "Racial Integrity" Laws
>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>> 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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