 | 1911 - 1328 pagine
...I know that it is desirable. The condition of the individual is not to be determined solely by the distinct and visible mixture of negro blood, but by...commonly exercised the privileges of a white man. But his admission to these privileges, regulated by the public opinion of the community in which he... | |
 | James Hugo Johnston - 1970 - 362 pagine
...not always practicable, nor is it practicable in this instance. Nor do I know that it is desirable. The condition of the individual is not to be determined...commonly exercised the privileges of a white man. But his admission to these privileges, regulated by the public opinion of the community in which he... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1874 - 556 pagine
...State v. Canty, it was said: " The condition of the individual is not to be determined solely by the distinct and visible mixture of negro blood, but by...commonly exercised the privileges of a white man." 2 Hill, SC 614-616. And it is said that it must bo "regarded as settled, that it is not every admixture... | |
 | Philip M. Weinstein - 1996 - 274 pagine
...cannot say what admixture of blood will make a colored person," Judge William Harper declared in 1635. "The condition of the individual is not to be determined...commonly exercised the privileges of a white man." 2 What would by the segregated time of Faulkner's Joe Christmas become a source of ungovernable anxiety—the... | |
 | Philip M. Weinstein - 1996 - 302 pagine
...cannot say what admixture of blood will make a colored person," Judge William Harper declared in 1635. "The condition of the individual is not to be determined...having commonly exercised the privileges of a white man."2 What would by the segregated time of Faulkner's Joe Christmas become a source of ungovernable... | |
 | Martha Elizabeth Hodes - 1997 - 356 pagine
...Thurman contended that "a mulatto is to be known, not solely by color, kinky hair, or slight admixture of negro blood . . . but by reputation, by his reception into society, and by the exercise of certain privileges." The state countered that a "mulatto" was a person of "any admixture... | |
 | Rachel F. Moran - 2001 - 288 pagine
...unwillingness to adopt hard and fast legal definitions of blackness. As Judge William Harper wrote In 1835: We cannot say what admixture of negro blood will make...[I]t may be well and proper, that a man of worth, honesty, industry, and respectability, should have the rank of a white man, while a vagabond of the... | |
 | Billy D. Higgins - 2004 - 380 pagine
...spring. 25. Williamson, New People, 19. In 1835, South Carolina district judge William Harper ruled that "The condition of the individual is not to be determined...commonly exercised the privileges of a white man." Helen T. Caterall, ed. , Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery, 5 vols. (Washington, DC: Carnegie... | |
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The condition of the individual is not to be determined solely by distinct and visible mixture of negro blood, but by reputation, by his reception into society, and his having commonly exercised the privileges of a white man. 