Thank you Darrell Newton.
Such categorisation! Sometimes I despair about us human beings. Or maybe we
should just re-define 'human', which as I understand it is supposed to be a
positive word.
But this discussion reminds me that in all the very many parish register
entries for births BASA has been sent, as far as I recall there has only
been one use of the word'mulatto'. Yet numbers of Black/White marriages are
noted. This appears to indicate that at least as far as parish clerks were
concerned, the children of such marriages were either Black or White. Until
we put all the entries on a data base, we dont know which the clerks chose.
Marika
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