 | 1911 - 1316 pagine
...and conduct; and it 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 tho same degree of blood should be confined to the inferior caste. It will be a stimulus to the good... | |
 | James Hugo Johnston - 1970 - 362 pagine
...conduct; and it 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...degree of blood should be confined to the inferior caste. It will be a stimulus to the good conduct of these persons, and security for their fidelity... | |
 | Thomas Holt - 1979 - 284 pagine
...not to be determined solely by . . . visible mixture . . . but by reputation . . . and it may be ... proper, that a man of worth . . . should have the...degree of blood should be confined to the inferior caste." 72 Little wonder that one student of the antebellum period would refer to the social distance... | |
 | George M. Fredrickson - 1981 - 386 pagine
...but by reputation . . . and it may be ... proper that a man of worth . . . should have the rank of white man, while a vagabond of the same degree of blood should be confined to the inferior caste." Elsewhere in the slave South, there was a stronger tendency to relegate all known mulattoes... | |
 | Robert M. Taylor, Ralph J. Crandall - 1986 - 394 pagine
...Relations in Brazil and the United States (New York: Macmillan Company, 1971) 101; italics added. [Negro] man of worth . . . should have the rank of a white...degree of blood should be confined to the inferior caste.8 Even more surprising to students of history is the fact that intermarriage between white and... | |
 | Jack D. Forbes - 1993 - 356 pagine
...not to be determined solely by ... visible mixture . . . but by reputation . . . and it may be ... proper that a man of worth . . . should have the rank...degree of blood should be confined to the inferior caste. ... It is hardly necessary to say that a slave cannot be a white man." In several instances... | |
 | Frank W. Sweet - 2000 - 24 pagine
...white man.... it 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...degree of blood should be confined to the inferior caste.2 This honorary Whiteness is why they are difficult to track using raw census data. To antebellum... | |
 | Rachel F. Moran - 2001 - 288 pagine
...man. . . . [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...degree of blood should be confined to the inferior caste.32 A flexible classification scheme permitted mulattoes to earn the privileges of whiteness through... | |
 | Teresa C. Zackodnik - 2004 - 276 pagine
...not to be determined solely by ... visible mixture . . . but by reputation . . . and it may be ... proper, that a man of worth . . . should have the...while a vagabond of the same degree of blood should be conf1ned to the inferior caste. ... It is hardly necessary to say that a slave cannot be a white man.... | |
 | Frank W. Sweet - 2005 - 557 pagine
...person. The condition is not to be determined solely by visible mixture but by reputation and it may be proper, that a man of worth should have the rank of...degree of blood should be confined to the inferior caste. It is hardly necessary to say that a slave cannot be a white man. We wish it to be understood... | |
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... a man of worth should have the rank of a white man, while a vagabond of the same degree of blood should be confined to the inferior caste. 