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SCG said mixed children are seldom accepted by whites or blacks
Source: The South Carolina Gazette #233
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From the minority’s point of view, every baby born to European parents “improved” the dangerous racial imbalance, while each child with a white father and a black mother increased the ranks of the slaves and served as a reminder of the Europeans’ precarious social and genetic position. Mulattoes, editorialized the Gazette , “are seldom well belov’d either by the Whites or the Blacks.” (SCG 3/22/35)
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