When the race line becomes blurred
http://sohorep.org/glossary-octoroon-photography
When the race line becomes blurred
http://sohorep.org/glossary-octoroon-photography
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
Freed the slaves, what the heck! Next you will be trying to tell me we've landed on the moon!
David
Goes to show that there are probably no...or only very few...'pure-bred' whites in the South. Makes racism a bit silly.
"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
― Walter Scott
Get educated here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pla%C3%A7age. In New Orleans, at least, offspring of a mixed race marriage, which was legal in NO at the time, were considered "free people of color. See also Mulatto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto
Note: The original definition of Creole was without regard to race and was applied to the first generation of European decent (i.e., settler). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Creole_people
Thomas
The founding and populating of what is now the United States is much different than the common thought. From the early 1600's to the American Revolution is over 150 years. Of Europeans many arrived through Quebec - sometimes called the 14th colony. In Canada native brides were most of the women available. This may be true for other colonies. These marriages created children called "metis" (mixed). Early explorers, voyagers, and fur trappers/traders were out in the West where only native brides were available. Sadly photography wasn't around at that time. Photographs such as the ones post above provide evidence of our actual history. Photography has been an important tool to record and document, times and places - as they were (of course through the photographers eyes).
Racism is a tool,formthise who really run the economic worl to keep the people apart and take advantage of us..Some people have over $100 BILLION and still need more..Need a Chinese revolution.
I could be native American as well one my ancestor's arrived in the 1630's in Quebec after it was returned to France. My direct line left New France after the French and Indian War and were were fur trapper / traders in the Great Lakes area then moving South to St. Louis in the 1760's. I wish there were photographs!
New Orleans was the second city in North America to be introduced to photography, 1840, one year after Daguerre introduced his process. It was opened by Jules Lion, a freeman of color: http://knowla.org/entry/481/
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