Thank you for your most enlightening reply. Laura Catherine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anita Wills" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 6:32 PM Subject: Re: Presidents wth black blood What if they do have black blood (whatever that means)? My understanding is that humans migrated out of Africa, so there are varying strains of "Black Blood" in all of us. By the way blood is not black, it is blue until the air hits it, and then it turns red. Anita -- Laura Fortune <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I have just read an article in the Arcade@Home that claims that Thomas Jefferson was our first president with black blood. Do any of the historians on this list have any information on this allegation? The artcle also states that Andrew Jackson was the son of an Irish wonan who married a black man, that Abraham Lincoln was the illegitimate son of an African man and allegedly an Ethiopian woman, that Warren Hardng had black ancestors on both sets of parents, and that Calvin Coolidge claimed his mother was dark because of mixed Indian ancestry. I have never heard of any of these before. Is there any truth here? Laura Catherine ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html _____________________________________________________________ Take a break - you deserve it. Click here to find a great vacation. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2211/fc/Ioyw6ijmedDcYkVGfVf2IQPD53zWVXRjPaCJASel6eN68nsWxnOG5s/?count=1234567890 ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html