[log in to unmask] wrote: Is is anyone aware of any free negroes or other persons of color in the colonies who held indentured whites in servitude? ----------- In 1736 the Richmond County court discharged James Talent, a white servant, from the service of Anthony Morgan because he was a "Mulatto." [Orders 17:394]. On 20 April 1775 a white woman named Mary Scandling was discharged from her indenture to George Jones by the Halifax County, Virginia court because George was a "free Mulatto." In February 1777 the court bound Mary's daughter Macklin Scandling to George Jones. On 19 November 1778 George deposed that he had been riding on a horse with Mary Scandling when they met Lucretia Macklin on the road. Lucretia insulted him, tried to strike him with a stick about the size of his arm, and struck Mary Scandling instead--resulting in Mary's death soon after [Halifax County Pleas 1774-9, 109, 193, 379]. (George Jones and Lucretia Macklin, a "free Mulatta," were both from York County). Thomas Day, the North Carolina cabinetmaker, employed white carpenters (as well as slaves) in his factory from 1823-1858, and John DeBaptist employed a white clerk (in his business in Fredericksburg) who ran away with his wife according to an ad De Baptist placed in a Delaware newspaper on 17 July 1790. Paul