Racial integrity act is the "one drop rule" that we always reference... Anyone who was listed as "mixed race" prior to 1930 suddenly became either "negro" or "white" definitively on the 1930 census... as a professional genealogist it is one of the most interesting facts to me as it is largely what shapes the American understanding of race today, and it just happened "yesterday"
Danielle I hear you on this issue, & you're right, it wasn't that long ago, but at the same time, it was. The Samurai used to test out their new katana blades on peasants & criminals. Point being, things have drastically changed. In my opinion, we've gone too far in the opposite direction. & that's coming from a 6% African.
I get ya. You have some interesting history on your channel. That era was crazy. Personally, I'd like to see a majority white country though, but not an ethno state. I think if we just allowed people in from the West, regardless of color, I think it would keep the culture a lot more cohesive. People who were born in the West. & if we only allowed people in from the West, it would automatically keep the country majority white anyway. If there was additional labor needed, then maybe we could bring in some Mexicans. They're right next door. I'm might make you mad with that comment, but that's how I feel. Your previous comment was the first time you responded to me. I appreciate that. It was unexpected. Have a good weekend.
For someone's whose maternal grandmother's family comes out of Charles City, Virginia, much of what you are covering here and more has affected my family until this very day.
@@laughingdaffodils5450 usually those states with higher numbers of black people are like that out of fear of being of what would happen if the folks they enslaved and/or discriminant against ever came to power. After the Nat Turner revolt, forces went on killing spree of black people that spread well past the boundaries of the county that the revolt took place in (even stretching into North Carolina).
Michigan didn’t. Eston Hemmings moved to Michigan, his census description was whiter over time, and his grandson was a Major in the Volunteer Cavalry for the Civil War. Of course, that was because he passed as white, or at least as white enough.
The hypocrisy of trying to keep a race "pure", while "interjecting" your "information" into other ethnicities who also might want the same thing for their community.
Yeah I don't understand that. Many white slave owners African slave women pregnant than talk about keeping the race pure when their the ones who started mixing.
The "1/16th Native American" exception to the law was because many "leading citizens" of Virginia's "first families" loved to claim descent from Pocahontas. By 1924, most of those descendants would have had sufficiently "diluted" heritage that they would not be affected by the law.
You talking about a few of my families. I'm a descendant of Pocahontas twice one through her daughter kaokie and her son . I just found my father's family and realized how they pride themselves on being Pocahontas descendants but it's all about land and supremacy. I'm not that light but I'm shocked to see how they all treat me because of my lighter hue than the rest of my family and I'm not that light to me
Where I work, Asians are classed as white, not as having a “lived experience of racism”. Asians don’t benefit from any DEI policies, such as the ability to turn in assignments late. Asian students get a grade penalty for late assignments, just like white students. Teachers are supposed to determine which students have lived experience, and we don’t really get any guidance on how to do this. It’s just kind of assumed we know what race our students are. I feel these policies are problematic, even today.
@@lovestorymobilewinery7222 she had only one child: thomas rolf. The family has one sire per generation until John Bolling who had multiple kids. “Pocahontas” was a nickname, she was kidnapped as a child and, renamed “Rebecca” and married as a child bride to John Rolfe. She died at age 20 to an unknown disease after Rolfe brought her to England and treated her like a sideshow attraction.
Thank you, Danielle for exposing the Virginia racial integrity law passed in 1924. In 1924, my parents were young children. I'm appalled at such divisive and hostile actions happening in the United States. These injustices need to be pointed out.
This document is just an example of fearful weak white people who’s only sense of self must be based on a sense of conjured superiority and brutality. Race (whiteness and blackness,etc.) is some made up crap to justify self exaltation and domination of others; those you are afraid of and possibly even envy. America, get it together!
I love your cool intro! I knew about this close history because my nana (Lumbee Cherokee from NC) and my paternal grandma (Culpeper VA) told me how precarious it was to be mixed or poor white (suspicious heritage). Fun fact (🙄): They originally had ANY native and black heritage as being colored. However, the old colonial families from Richmond and Northern Neck had genealogy books tooting their link to Pocahontas. This law would have labeled them as "colored", so they naturally fought back hard to get (1/16th) native included in the law. People like Danielle and I would've been considered "colored"/illegally passing: I'm so happy you are showing how recent these laws have affected us 1-2 generations later.
@@pcarebear1Read the book by Nancy Isenberg White Trash. Explains the class distinction from WASP landowners to the poorest dirt farmers. It was eye opening how hatred and classism allows people to forgo humanity. Then this hatred fuels over to other groups. I am so thankful my friends are all diverse. We love and respect each other and enjoy our differences. For us the key is we are all spiritual and have Faith. We even respect each others faith and even respect each others rights for different political views. We always have various foods for dinner parties. I am so blessed to have this group of friends. We even share different opinions and so far we can leave it all to intellectual development. I hope this 11 year group remains strong!!!!!!
I always lived in NC but visited Virginia often. My ex & uncle always told me "please do not speed in Virginia because it's easy for black people to be arrested there".
Eugenics was practiced in the early 1900s in the U.S.A, some famous names like Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Benedict Davenport, John D. Rockefeller, and J.H. Kellogg.
Yes , and a particularly nasty Eugenics supporter was the Irish author George Bernard Shaw. He even claimed that Highland Scots were " inferior " !! An IRISHMAN claiming that Highland Scots were inferior , talk about NERVE !! And the lowland city of Edinburgh is one of the great cities of northern Europe !! The " Athens of the North ".
The Ivy leagues schools was involved in eugenics, hence the requirement of taking naked pictures of all incoming freshmen, which did not stop until the 1970s.
What stands out in this video is the emphasis on enforcing the one-drop rule, ensuring that even one-sixteenth black ancestry classified someone as black. I would like to address that some white men engaging in relationships with black women and fathering children was a significant factor at the time, yet it is rarely addressed. This omission underscores the hypocrisy and racial double standards of that era.
Exactly. Clearly the "race mixing" occurred from the so called "white" men having sex with women of color (women of African descent), and not the other way around.
Tell the truth, and shame the devil. If I read your comment without being a student and professor of history, I would think you were implying that White men had a history of producing children by Black women in consensual relationships. That rarely happened. Dating from slavery, and for decades thereafter, the violation of women of African ancestry was a fact of life on those plantations. It happened very frequently and with impunity. Everyone was aware of this historical fact. It is even depicted in so much of our literature. Some descendants of these ungodly unions have even penned numerous books to reveal the inhumane events their female ancestors had to repeatedly endure. This is why dna tests reveal that the majority of so-called Black Americans are part White. Ultimately, this aspect of our history has been embedded into the psychological, social, moral, and physical aspects of American culture. In addition, its long-term ramifications still negatively impact both races.
@ I looked it up and discovered that it was a type of marriage or relationship agreement between French men and women of color, often lasting a lifetime. This might be a topic NYTN could explore further, if she hasn’t already. Thank you for sharing this information.
Hi Danielle. My mom was from Virginia. She was born in 1940. She told me how strict they were about racial classification. Even with that, my mom said many people in the small towns like she was born in circumnavigated the laws by either just living together and raising their families. I found out one of my second great grandmothers on her father's side was either mostly or partly East Indian. I have been researching and found that Virginia had a notable East Indian population from the Colonial times. Many were recorded as colored or black as the laws changed. My second great grandmother was recorded as black.
This explains my DNA test results. My mom and dad both had East Indian dna and mom told me her grandfathers name was Bong and he had straight hair which raised my suspicions on how he got to VA. 😮😮
@@lanelle.delinaI was surprised also. My second great grandmother's first name was Binay, which is Sanskrit for blessing. That's what made me start researching about East Indians in VA.
My mother from Mississippi told me the Colored meant non White, it never meant Black as I thought, and as it is taught. She mentioned how other Colored folks went to their school and could not be white like Natives.
This is some sad damn stories. This sounds about right for Virginia. This is real history. They wouldn’t dare teach this in schools. Thank you for this video.
This impacted my family in VA generarions ago, and we're still trying to unravel the pieces. My grandfather never wanted to talk about it. When geneology uncovered 1st cousins who were "WT" I intially thought I had a bite at the apple. Alas, even they didn't want to discuss it either. So the journey continues... "Thanks," Walter.
@@nytnLucian Truscott IV, who is descended from Thomas Jefferson’s daughter Martha, met with hostility when he attempted to introduce Sally Hemings’s descendants to the Jefferson descendants group. It is disgraceful they behave this way.
@@Egilhelmsonthere were racist, white supremacist and anti-black laws in every state in the United states along with white supremacist laws on the federal level. This specific law was written in and for Virginia but systemic racism has never been an exclusively southern thing.
I was affected by it and I am only 52. This affected me because my grandparents were afraid to be thought of as anything but white. My grandmother used to try training me to stay out of the sun and use a lot of sunscreen. At 5, I was taught how to apply makeup to hide and told I might need to bleach my skin and straighten my hair. With all that, anytime someone asked my grandma if she was Indian she would loose her mind. My grandpa’s mother Lena Mullins was darker than your Lola and was Melungeon born in Virginia. She and her daughter died of cancer from using cancer causing hair straighteners, because they were very afraid of these laws.
Man... and the history of the Melungeon people is such an incredible thing. I'm from near that area and it breaks my heart to know that people for good reason felt like they had to hide their identity. It was such a great full history. One of the few papers I ever wrote in school that I was somewhat proud of was of your people.
I was taught that too! My grandmother passed for white …she was a Melungeon but practice mostly Native American cultures privately) and she was disappointed I wasn’t fair enough. She said my hair saved me when it is straightened. I’m from Virginia and most of my family on both sides are from Virginia and NC. I recently connected to my Native American ancestry was able to connect it to more than 8 different tribes within my last 3 generations. FYSA- All 4 of my immediate grandparents all knew each other.
@@nytn North Carolina's Free People of Color 1715-1885 Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge Indies, and a variety of individuals with mixed ancestry. They sometimes used "free negro," "free mulatto," "free mustee," and "free black" interchangeably with "free person of color," but "free person of color" was the most frequently used term. In addition, this seems to be the term most widely accepted by those who fell into the category. For these reasons, "of color" is the term I use throughout this book. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century historians have used "negro," "black," and "African American" instead of or in conjunction with "person of color." Yet to embrace their usage is to accept that racial categories are fixed to specific groups of people with specific collective his-tories. These scholars' usage of categories suggests that terminology can shift, but the people those categories describe are essential, historical groups. The evolution of racial categories, however, is more complex. All of these terms, especially "African American," are loaded with twentieth- and twenty-first-century connotations of African ancestry, which do not necessarily apply to the subjects of this study or their descendants. As this book demonstrates, not all individuals categorized as "free people of color" had African ancestry, and they are not collectively the ancestors of people described today as "blacks" or "African Americans." Large numbers of people who today are the descendants of "free people of color" self-categorize or are classified by others as "white" and "Indian." 1 The story of free people of color may be one of the best examples of racial categories being made and remade in American history. Addition-ally, some older descendants of free people of color have explained to me that their ancestors 日出 understood "black" to be a derogatory term and not one they embraced as a self-descriptor. These assertions are confirmed by the contrasting use of terminology between nineteenth-century radical proslavery propagandists, who frequently used the term "black" in their writ-ings, and other North Carolinians, who commonly used "of color." 13 I have found evidence that the category "free people of color" included individuals without African ancestry, most notably Native peoples. Scholars of Native American history have uncovered numerous examples of Native people being categorized as "black," "colored," or "mulatto."14 Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatu argued that such labeling of Native people was a form of "documentary genocide." is I agree that such labels obscure ancestral distinctions. I also think and show, however, that racial categories have never truly acted as accurate indicators of ancestry. Whites in nineteenth-century North Carolina were quite aware that they had branded Native peoples as "colored" and even after such labeling retained memory, or at least a belief, that certain free people of color were Native peoples. With this understanding, I urge scholars to reimagine the genesis of racial categorization for Native peo-ples. In the United States, as in other parts of the Americas, all Native people did not fall into the "Indian" category. Some Native people lived under the designation "colored," experienced the legal limitations associated with such a designation, lived in communities in which racial categorization was imposed and not self-ascribed, and described themselves as "colored" people while still retaining memories of their indigenous .
They don't hide, ppl just dont think to look, get mad when the Black academics point it out and teach our ppl then pass anti CRT/DEI evidence based research material , influence public opinion and BAM!!! .... no one cares for the information documented
If you are worried about yts 'repeating history ' then I would say your fears are unfounded. Compared to yts elsewhere in the world, US yts are among the most passive. In addition, the yt population in the US, like all western Industrialzed countries, is below replacement levels in terms of birth rates. @jamiecasacagaleano7355
I would love to see you do more deep dive on the subject. I found in studying my own family history, especially since it records the change in nationality from census to census. Sometimes going from mulatto to black, or from native American to mulatto to black. Is interesting how narrow the census became at one point
Often times the reason that happens is due to the census tacker, but other times it was due to folks changing their racial identity. For example, there have been cases where white women and/or white men would willing accept being label as black or mulatto in order to be able to legally stay with their family. I do know of particular base in Virginia that a census taker was purposes misidentifying Native American to Black in order to setup the stage for a land grab, as without a Native American population than there is no need for reservation and thus that land becomes open to purchase.
YES! I would LOVE to see a deep dive into this topic. My mother was born in Virginia and her family was listed on the Plecker list of people who were trying to pass. This deeply affected my family with generational shame and trauma that we are still working through. And I know that we are not alone. Integrating this knowledge is an important part of understanding our family's story. Thank you!!
You are heroric and brave to fearlessly explore the intricate🎉 history of your family and the human family in such a personal way. Thank You and Bless You!
Im glad that the Hartless family was finally mentioned. My grandmother (my dad’s mother) was a Hartless from Rockbridge county VA. And that side of my family was most definitely of some sort of a mixture. Some are listed as Monican indian or Mulatto. Verry interesting! Keep up the great work!
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perfect analysis, this was great. a lot of people don’t dedicate time to learning this history because it can be painful. the work you’re doing is admirable, i appreciate you sharing your journey with us. and you’re absolutely correct about the importance of dialogue. too many generations have gone without having this conversation, it’s necessary to move past this
The irony about that rule is that in terms of genetics, once an ethnicity falls below 25% in a new individual the chances of the ethnicity influencing phenotypical features like outwards appearance starts to plummet fast. Like crazy fast.
Yep, in the early 1970's they decided that. Before that it did not matter how far back your black ancestor was. If you had a 3rd great grandparent black but the rest white, you were white by the new law made 50 years ago. Before that if you had one ancestor no matter how far back you were black thanks to Jim Crow. I watched a few Louisiana Creole videos, and one fellow said in the 1930's there were plenty of judges that would change their a white in appearance family's race to white if they paid them enough money. Most Creoles refused to do that.
@@peachygal4153 There was a well known miscegenation case in Mississippi, as there was charges brought of a descendant of Newton Knight for trying to marry a white woman. I believe the descendant was 1/8 black, but because his ancestor was so well know they made a case out of it.
Your passion is why I’m such a fan 🙂. I definitely understand why this is so emotional for you. These revelations are a confirmation for some and an embarrassment for others. So this information angers both sides, which means it’s something that shouldn’t be ignored if we are to grow as human beings
As a tri racial person from Virginia who looks and is classed as "white" I LOVE your work! Keep at it. Wait till you find the connection between Plecker, the Not sees and the Gaulton Institute in England. Happy hunting!
Hi Danielle im from a small county Charles City Virginia that neighors Jamestown settlement and Richmond Virginia.my ancestors are from here and still reside. majority of the county was classified as Mulatto and where the Chicahomony tribe resides. There were last names of residents listed on Pleckers list for native not to be classified as so. We have lots of Plantations, few presidents from here like John Tyler and William and Benjamin Harrison, Sally Hemmings mother was from here before they went to Monticello also decendands of Pocahontas live here and her Father is buried at the Pamunkey res in King William Virginia which Chicahominy Mattaponi and Pamunkey were all one and Algonquin speaking then separated .Berkley Plantation is where they say the "First Thanksgiving" was held.If you are interested please look up Charles City County Virginia,there is TONS of history and i would say this is one of the areas where America was started. Thank you.
Wow! Loved the graphics with the globe. You make some of the best videos on TH-cam! Keep 'em coming Danielle! ☺️ YES DO A DEEP DIVE. I'm already with you on Patreon. 🎉
My father's side of the family has basically always lived in Richmond like we do now. A couple years back, he had an interest in attempting to uncover his family tree. It quickly became apparent how difficult this was going to be for not only a black man, but a black man in Virginia who's family was directly affected by this paper gen0cid3. He found old documents before 1924 in which he had ancestors who identified as "Native American" or "Mulatto." After 1924 they were all colored. This is huge because it prevented anyone with this native american heritage from claiming sovereignty over the land and from organizing into communities. Thus the white colonizers no longer have to worry about the indigenous fighting for the landback because now you are black- "colored." All of this is relevant. Institutionalized racism started 400 years ago and all the effects of that haunt us to this day. This was used to prevent colored, mixed, and native families from getting in on the freedoms and priveliges of the white man. Something that was an understandable goal for people of that time. And because these folks were officially designated as non-white, justfully or not, were injustfully forced into ghettos, prisons, and the margins of society simply for existing. This goes on even to this day. Even after the 60's where Luther King Jr. made progress for civil rights in America- systemic racism still needa to be addressed as its effects will continue to ripple through time.
You're doing great work, Danielle. Keep going. There's history like this throughout our Southern states, and probably in more than a few Midwestern and even Northern and Western states. I've always heard that Oregon was not exactly a welcoming spot for people of color back in the day. My family is out of Texas, and I can only imagine what earlier generations had to endure. I've only done a little research into my family's history, but other family members have pursued the subject much more. We used to have family reunions that I attended to learn more, share that family history, and meet one another a few years back. But folks are getting older, and it's hard to maintain those ties. You've inspired me to try to learn more while the elders are still with us. Truth is, I've become one of the old timers. Time is crazy like that. Thanks for all your efforts. As Tupac Shukur once said: " You are appreciated". Carry on...
Why so many tried or succeeded in passing. Anybody with any “color” was treated like crap. Why do we talk about history? Cause it still affects us today. You are an example just finding out who you truly are. As well as myself.
It amazes me, how so many young people see history as staring in the 1960s. So many (most) older American adults that you see every day have lived, loved, and raised a family in the environment in which the letter your reading was written... You still have a lot of Americans living well into their 80s and 90s; these witnesses are the people you need to consult with, so you can do more than read from a flat one-dimensional page. I'm just saying, reach out and ask those that felt the eerier of being other than.
A place where people of various races worked together and sometimes intermarried , starting back in the 1700`s was at the "furnaces". Two examples are Cornwall Furnace , Lebanon County and Furnace Hill in Pottstown , Montgomery County , both in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Danielle, now you are getting closer to the really history that has shaped our country (U.S.) and ultimately the entire world. Thank you for your efforts.
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Thank you so much for this lesson! I live in Virginia, and there is a tremendous amount of history that still needs to be exposed. I am personally and directly connected with some of that history. I would love to see and hear more of what you have ot share
Yes they were often re-enslaved through kidnapping! This is why many American Indians/Black Americans left to other countries during that time, including Liberia! I just created a video on this very topic check it out! Love you approach to our history! Thank you
I enjoy history. I love family history. My grandfather passed for white and was unaware of his own family history. He was very mixed and pretended to be racist to accommodate racist "friends." It took six years for him to get over his daughter marrying a black man. Seeing how we all come from one people, it's a social construct so some groups can feel more entitled than others. I feel it's especially true with folks in India, northern Europe, and southern United States.
@@NeheC7 Read 'the Negro in the Making of America'. It has an interesting detail about wealthy Virginia men petitioning their legislature to declare their mixed children as White by law so as to marry into bvb the wealthy class.
My family has deep roots in VA. Thank you for this video; it is so on point. My grandmother was one of those persons who could pass for white. In fact, my mother, who was born 7 years after the passage of the Act, was the only one of her 8 siblings that was born in the hospital in Richmond. When the administrators saw her and my grandmother together, they classified her as white on her birth certificate. Notwithstanding the fact that my grandfather was of mixed ancestry (white, black, and native), but clearly presented as a light-skinned black man. My grandparents were married in 1924 in NY because they couldn't get a marriage license in VA. When my mother and father (who is black) decided to marry in 1960, they had to leave the state to go to MD, where the marriage licensing was less stringent than VA. Because of Plecker's enforcement of this heinous act, thousands of native peoples' identities were systematically wiped out of existence. Also, the county is pronounced Pow-a-tan, not Pow-hattan.
Great topic , Danielle ! The documents are fascinating and demonstrate how entrenched the US is in racial identity. Please continue. Also: When were Italians, Jews, and the like codified as being white (if at all) ? Codified, as in legally accepted ? And why would your husband NOT be considered white - because of his PR heritage?
Now that I think about my great grandmother Lucy born in westmoreland va that I was told she’s India but other family members disregard. Now I understand why
Thanks for this.I live in virginia and just the other day.I was going to be denied healthcare if I didn't fill my race out on a form. I wrote that I was german and the woman took it. I was deeply offended
The one thing that makes all this classification crazy is depending on where you live in America people will say you’re whatever they grew up believing in . My reality check came when I was in the military. People didn’t know what I was until I identified myself as black in the Tri State area because of their multiracial background in those states. I thought it was clear that I was a black man because in New Orleans my look is mostly associated with how light skin black men look. I quickly realized when I was stationed in South Philadelphia that my look could also be associated with Italian, Puerto Rican and many other ethnic groups up north. I used to tell the people who lived in South Philadelphia that many of them would be considered black in Louisiana. Location really plays a huge part in all of this. To be honest all of these classifications should be eliminated but that would never happen because of racism.
@daharris41 , It would have been " interesting " to hear you tell the former mayor Frank Rizzo , " Hey Frank , you`re Black ". Rizzo , who was awarded " Klansman of the Year " by the K.K.K.
@ if Frank had a dark complexion he would have been called black in Louisiana. I don’t care how racist or committed to their cause he was. Go google how they were lynching Italians in New Orleans.
@ Just to clear I don’t care what anyone calls themselves. I’m strictly speaking on how many people in the Northeast would be considered in Louisiana by their appearance only. There’s a reason why this young ladies grandmother went to New York and not Alabama.
The audacity he wrote with in that letter, as though we aren't confused enough. We're then made to omit our ancestors in one form or another. You are one youtuber that helped me on my journey. I appreciate you and hoping you can sort this all out❤
This is my Great Grandfather Owen Franklin Weaver (standing), born in North Carolina about 1845, moved to the Weaver settlement in Grant County, Indiana where he lived in Jeremiah Shoecraft's household. He enlisted in the Civil War in 1865 and married Henrietta Shoecraft in 1869. He purchased 162 acres in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1895. Following the massacre of African Americans in Tulsa in 1922, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he died in 1929. (Jeremiah and Henrietta Shoecraft were the grandchildren of William Shoecraft and his wife Bicey Nickens).
Plecker is the same individual who during that same time frame conducted certain physical and unconventional “tests,” to determine which members of the Lumbee community in NC were indeed, in his mind, Indigenous in their effort to achieve federal recognition at that time. As a result, the group was split into two with the “approved” group achieving federal recognition while the other group is still fighting for recognition. His issue was that all of them appeared to have African ancestry. It was a dehumanizing experience. The approved group, it appears, has since been in conflict with the remaining group. My second-great grandfather, based on DNA, is a descendant of the Lumbee community - (pre-Civil War - and that’s important to know and is a separate topic altogether).
Don't you DARE let anyone tell you who you are! YOU know. If they cannot accept it, that's their problem, not yours. I am so sick of this country being so damn devisive and hiding people's history. You know what we are? Homo sapiens. It's our ethnicity, ancestry and culture. Whatever you say you are, I accept it. Please don't let people bully you, okay. You step over them, dust off your feet and keep going, hear me? Many blessings to you and your family! Take care...
This is a fascinating subject. I think that to help put more context around this, we would pull the VA census records from 1920 and 1930 and compare them by the numbers of the increase or decrease in population after this integrity act.
Also, other states didn't follow this act as much as Plecker tried to persuade them to their cause.
My parents and grandparents and great grands are the people who lived through this and sadly at 50 years old I had to learn of this through learning my DNA and ancestral roots because they were taken back in the 90's! This is the awakening, the redemption and judgement on the whole entire world! 🔥🙏🏾🕊️
@ That is not true. DNA reveals your ancestry which is your bloodline. The actual history of travel of where they originated from and how they moved and where they lived over time. And this is biblical. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” Leviticus 17:11 KJV If you read the Bible, and read Genesis 6 forward, you will understand the dynamics of the world were changed after the flood.
@ I am not afraid of any man. I only fear the LORD and he is with me. “In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.” Psalm 56:11 KJV
Danielle please don't cry😢 You're doing God's work in these TH-cam streets, hold your head up and stay strong!! I wish i could send you a picture of my great great grandmother born enslaved in Richmond so you can see how pernicious things were.
I’m a native of the Shenandoah valley of VA. and I’m a descendant on my father’s side of an Irish indentured servant who came to the VA. Tidewater from Northern Ireland in the mid 18th century and who worked for 7 years on a tobacco plantation until he got his freedom and eventually wound up in the Shenandoah valley. My mother though was an olive skinned Sefardic Jew from Brooklyn NY. who my father met and married in NJ. while he was stationed at Fort Dix when he was in the Army and both my mother and I experienced a little bit of anti semitism where I grew up yet with her olive skin and dark curly hair some ppl thought she was part black and she experienced a little bit of racism too as did my father for marrying her
Thank you so much for your hard work. My dad's family comes from Northern Louisiana, so I grew up around these discussions related to passing and colorism. How can U.S. history not includ the discussion of race, it's impossible, and it's intentional. Yet, the idea of passing not be discussed as a way people tried to escape the pain and restrictions. Please start writing the chapters that should be included in U.S. history.
Virginia has the one of the oldest settlements. Virginia is also a CIS. CIS is Commonwealth Independent States. There is an Asteroid named for Virginia. Virginia State Flag has a warrior goddess defeating a tyrant. It is Athena. She came for her sister Minerva. 😊
In Louisiana, they had a law that classified mixed people as being black if they were 1/32nd African blood (the "one drop rule"). That law was repealed in 1983.
I have had the same experience as you doing my husband's family history and when he was growing up he was specifically told that if anyone asks what he was he was to tell them he was white because his mother was scared that they would take him away because that's what the government used to do
The Weaver family originated with three men, probably brothers: Richard, John and William Weaver (born about 1675-1686) who came as indentured servants from India, probably by way of London, and were free in Lancaster County, Virginia, before 1710. They blended into the free African American community of Lancaster County, and spread to Hertford County, North Carolina, where there were 169 "free colored" people counted in Weaver households in 1820.
Thanks for bringing this subject up - this is history that people should know. I have ancestors that were free people of color in NC before the Civil War. They moved to Virginia after the War and passed as white. My great-grandfather lived into the 1930s, so he, his children and grandchildren lived through this 1924 law. Plecker had a county-by-county list of families his agency suspected that were passing. I dug around online until I found a scan of that list and our name was not on it... so Plecker never suspected my family!
Happy new year and I was hoping that I would run across your channel again. I had a couple come into my store last week , both whom I assumed were white , and when I saw the Indian jewelry and complimented it , the woman began to explain that her great great grandmother was indigenous Indian and because THEY WERE BEING MURDERED IN MASS😡… that they began marrying their oppressors and attempting to marry out their complexions in order to attempt to survive. This didn’t surprise me because I know that my own ancestors were subjected to this same persecution ( or the attempt to escape it there of ) but her candidness was refreshing because she OWNED IT 🤯!!! I don’t know how this is going to help you if it actually would at all but again, YOUR STORY IS NOT UNIQUE and your identity as BELIEVING YOU WERE WHITE WAS ONLY A LIE AND AMONG THE MANY PROTECTION MECHANISMS AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY 😮
Danielle, Thank you for exposing this. I have family in Virginia, Carolinas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. My paternal great-grandmother was listed in Colored.I know she is an American Indian. This stuff matters and it’s only been 100 years ago. Keep doing what you do.
My mom was born in Lacrosse, VA and told me about my black, French and native heritage. They were married into the family through her grandparent/great grandparents. She told me her teacher was native American but classified as colored. Most in our family were mulatto in the 1800s then colored. She taught them native dances to preserve the culture. We were related to her somewhere down the line. It’s always been about race. They tried to preserve their culture but if you see the recognized tribes they mainly look white now. They don’t recognize you if you looked black. One even told me too many black people have a hang up on being native. They want to deny anyone else has a right to anything except those they recognize.
You are referring to Afro Indigenous People, everyone should use that term to dispel any confusion as some People love to misclassify what real Natives, real Afro Indigenous with ancient Black American theories, or use a one drop rule or racial purity as to keep mixed people from identifying with one of their ancestries.
Danielle it's still ongoing today, I have studied my genealogy and it seems there is a big drama that certain genealogy sites have erased a lot of woman who were multi racial listing them as unknown esp ones descended from Jane Newman Chiles/Osteen/Littlepage/Chambers/Presley who all were born in Virginia.
Racial integrity act is the "one drop rule" that we always reference... Anyone who was listed as "mixed race" prior to 1930 suddenly became either "negro" or "white" definitively on the 1930 census... as a professional genealogist it is one of the most interesting facts to me as it is largely what shapes the American understanding of race today, and it just happened "yesterday"
I agree so much.
@nytn love your content, thanks for the reply! Keep on learning and sharing. It's vital
Danielle I hear you on this issue, & you're right, it wasn't that long ago, but at the same time, it was. The Samurai used to test out their new katana blades on peasants & criminals. Point being, things have drastically changed. In my opinion, we've gone too far in the opposite direction. & that's coming from a 6% African.
@ShinobiShaman I just will always find it interesting and important to talk about, perhaps that's the historian in me.
I get ya. You have some interesting history on your channel. That era was crazy. Personally, I'd like to see a majority white country though, but not an ethno state. I think if we just allowed people in from the West, regardless of color, I think it would keep the culture a lot more cohesive. People who were born in the West. & if we only allowed people in from the West, it would automatically keep the country majority white anyway. If there was additional labor needed, then maybe we could bring in some Mexicans. They're right next door. I'm might make you mad with that comment, but that's how I feel. Your previous comment was the first time you responded to me. I appreciate that. It was unexpected. Have a good weekend.
For someone's whose maternal grandmother's family comes out of Charles City, Virginia, much of what you are covering here and more has affected my family until this very day.
It is not just Virginia in the United States that has this obsession
It's the entire United States, but I guess the system was designed that way as a distraction
But Virginia has always been one of the extras.
Nah. It’s money that’s the obsession. It was never about the race, race was just a tool to continue to help the rich take advantage of the poor.
@@laughingdaffodils5450 usually those states with higher numbers of black people are like that out of fear of being of what would happen if the folks they enslaved and/or discriminant against ever came to power. After the Nat Turner revolt, forces went on killing spree of black people that spread well past the boundaries of the county that the revolt took place in (even stretching into North Carolina).
Michigan didn’t. Eston Hemmings moved to Michigan, his census description was whiter over time, and his grandson was a Major in the Volunteer Cavalry for the Civil War. Of course, that was because he passed as white, or at least as white enough.
The hypocrisy of trying to keep a race "pure", while "interjecting" your "information" into other ethnicities who also might want the same thing for their community.
Exactly!
Yeah I don't understand that. Many white slave owners African slave women pregnant than talk about keeping the race pure when their the ones who started mixing.
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For them, they are seeing it as doing us a favor by making us more like them breeding the black/African out of them
WOOOW!! Riiight?!!
The "1/16th Native American" exception to the law was because many "leading citizens" of Virginia's "first families" loved to claim descent from Pocahontas. By 1924, most of those descendants would have had sufficiently "diluted" heritage that they would not be affected by the law.
I planned a whole video on this, I’m so glad to see this comment
Very true.
You talking about a few of my families. I'm a descendant of Pocahontas twice one through her daughter kaokie and her son . I just found my father's family and realized how they pride themselves on being Pocahontas descendants but it's all about land and supremacy. I'm not that light but I'm shocked to see how they all treat me because of my lighter hue than the rest of my family and I'm not that light to me
Where I work, Asians are classed as white, not as having a “lived experience of racism”. Asians don’t benefit from any DEI policies, such as the ability to turn in assignments late. Asian students get a grade penalty for late assignments, just like white students. Teachers are supposed to determine which students have lived experience, and we don’t really get any guidance on how to do this. It’s just kind of assumed we know what race our students are. I feel these policies are problematic, even today.
@@lovestorymobilewinery7222 she had only one child: thomas rolf.
The family has one sire per generation until John Bolling who had multiple kids.
“Pocahontas” was a nickname, she was kidnapped as a child and, renamed “Rebecca” and married as a child bride to John Rolfe. She died at age 20 to an unknown disease after Rolfe brought her to England and treated her like a sideshow attraction.
What is kept in the dark must be bought to the light for real truth and understanding. Keep up the great work. 🫡👍🏾✅💯
Thank you, Danielle for exposing the Virginia racial integrity law passed in 1924. In 1924, my parents were young children. I'm appalled at such divisive and hostile actions happening in the United States. These injustices need to be pointed out.
Lol
This document is just an example of fearful weak white people who’s only sense of self must be based on a sense of conjured superiority and brutality. Race (whiteness and blackness,etc.) is some made up crap to justify self exaltation and domination of others; those you are afraid of and possibly even envy. America, get it together!
I love your cool intro! I knew about this close history because my nana (Lumbee Cherokee from NC) and my paternal grandma (Culpeper VA) told me how precarious it was to be mixed or poor white (suspicious heritage). Fun fact (🙄): They originally had ANY native and black heritage as being colored. However, the old colonial families from Richmond and Northern Neck had genealogy books tooting their link to Pocahontas. This law would have labeled them as "colored", so they naturally fought back hard to get (1/16th) native included in the law. People like Danielle and I would've been considered "colored"/illegally passing: I'm so happy you are showing how recent these laws have affected us 1-2 generations later.
@@pcarebear1Read the book by Nancy Isenberg White Trash. Explains the class distinction from WASP landowners to the poorest dirt farmers. It was eye opening how hatred and classism allows people to forgo humanity. Then this hatred fuels over to other groups. I am so thankful my friends are all diverse. We love and respect each other and enjoy our differences. For us the key is we are all spiritual and have Faith. We even respect each others faith and even respect each others rights for different political views. We always have various foods for dinner parties. I am so blessed to have this group of friends. We even share different opinions and so far we can leave it all to intellectual development. I hope this 11 year group remains strong!!!!!!
I lived in Virginia in 2013 and still felt crazy racism.
I was in Front Royal 2013-2018 and it wasn’t good but even worse was Arkansas
I always lived in NC but visited Virginia often. My ex & uncle always told me "please do not speed in Virginia because it's easy for black people to be arrested there".
lol glad you left then
@ yes as a matter of fact I was. My Mom passed from cancer and it was a sad sad place for me
Born and raised there ain’t shit changed same flavor different labels
Thank you for the important work you do!
Eugenics was practiced in the early 1900s in the U.S.A, some famous names like Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Benedict Davenport, John D. Rockefeller, and J.H. Kellogg.
Charles Lindburgh too.
@ you are right and because of their money and fame, to this day it have influenced the zeitgeist of race in the U.S.A..
Yes , and a particularly nasty Eugenics supporter was the Irish author George Bernard Shaw. He even claimed that Highland Scots were " inferior " !! An IRISHMAN claiming that Highland Scots were inferior , talk about NERVE !! And the lowland city of Edinburgh is one of the great cities of northern Europe !! The " Athens of the North ".
Wake Forest University in Winston Salem NC
The Ivy leagues schools was involved in eugenics, hence the requirement of taking naked pictures of all incoming freshmen, which did not stop until the 1970s.
Anyone who says this was a long time ago obviously never went through any of this and care less about those who did.
What stands out in this video is the emphasis on enforcing the one-drop rule, ensuring that even one-sixteenth black ancestry classified someone as black. I would like to address that some white men engaging in relationships with black women and fathering children was a significant factor at the time, yet it is rarely addressed. This omission underscores the hypocrisy and racial double standards of that era.
Exactly. Clearly the "race mixing" occurred from the so called "white" men having sex with women of color (women of African descent), and not the other way around.
@@JustHadToKnow google 'placage', New Orleans Creoles, pass ant blanc, the Autocrat Social and Pleasure Club, New Orleans 7th ward.
Tell the truth, and shame the devil. If I read your comment without being a student and professor of history, I would think you were implying that White men had a history of producing children by Black women in consensual relationships. That rarely happened. Dating from slavery, and for decades thereafter, the violation of women of African ancestry was a fact of life on those plantations. It happened very frequently and with impunity. Everyone was aware of this historical fact. It is even depicted in so much of our literature. Some descendants of these ungodly unions have even penned numerous books to reveal the inhumane events their female ancestors had to repeatedly endure. This is why dna tests reveal that the majority of so-called Black Americans are part White. Ultimately, this aspect of our history has been embedded into the psychological, social, moral, and physical aspects of American culture. In addition, its long-term ramifications still negatively impact both races.
@ I looked it up and discovered that it was a type of marriage or relationship agreement between French men and women of color, often lasting a lifetime. This might be a topic NYTN could explore further, if she hasn’t already. Thank you for sharing this information.
@JustHadToKnow Anne Rice did a historical novel on this called 'The Feast of All Saints'.
Hi Danielle. My mom was from Virginia. She was born in 1940. She told me how strict they were about racial classification. Even with that, my mom said many people in the small towns like she was born in circumnavigated the laws by either just living together and raising their families. I found out one of my second great grandmothers on her father's side was either mostly or partly East Indian. I have been researching and found that Virginia had a notable East Indian population from the Colonial times. Many were recorded as colored or black as the laws changed. My second great grandmother was recorded as black.
This explains my DNA test results. My mom and dad both had East Indian dna and mom told me her grandfathers name was Bong and he had straight hair which raised my suspicions on how he got to VA. 😮😮
@@lanelle.delinaI was surprised also. My second great grandmother's first name was Binay, which is Sanskrit for blessing. That's what made me start researching about East Indians in VA.
My mother from Mississippi told me the Colored meant non White, it never meant Black as I thought, and as it is taught. She mentioned how other Colored folks went to their school and could not be white like Natives.
@@tellitellis4117Thank you for the information. I always thought that black and colored were used interchangeably during that time.
That might explains why some black American have straight black hair
This is some sad damn stories. This sounds about right for Virginia. This is real history. They wouldn’t dare teach this in schools. Thank you for this video.
This impacted my family in VA generarions ago, and we're still trying to unravel the pieces. My grandfather never wanted to talk about it. When geneology uncovered 1st cousins who were "WT" I intially thought I had a bite at the apple. Alas, even they didn't want to discuss it either. So the journey continues...
"Thanks," Walter.
We will do a deep dive on this. There are primary documents that are so wild to me
@@nytnLucian Truscott IV, who is descended from Thomas Jefferson’s daughter Martha, met with hostility when he attempted to introduce Sally Hemings’s descendants to the Jefferson descendants group. It is disgraceful they behave this way.
How can anyone ever say that America has never been a racist country go figure.😎
Is this a law in Massachusetts, or only in ex-Confederate states? She is complaining about Virginia, not a state that did not secede.
All countries are racist even the black and brown ones.
@@Egilhelmsonthere were racist, white supremacist and anti-black laws in every state in the United states along with white supremacist laws on the federal level. This specific law was written in and for Virginia but systemic racism has never been an exclusively southern thing.
I was affected by it and I am only 52. This affected me because my grandparents were afraid to be thought of as anything but white. My grandmother used to try training me to stay out of the sun and use a lot of sunscreen. At 5, I was taught how to apply makeup to hide and told I might need to bleach my skin and straighten my hair. With all that, anytime someone asked my grandma if she was Indian she would loose her mind. My grandpa’s mother Lena Mullins was darker than your Lola and was Melungeon born in Virginia. She and her daughter died of cancer from using cancer causing hair straighteners, because they were very afraid of these laws.
My next video is about the Plecker letter on the Melungeons of Tennessee. Just shocking history
Man... and the history of the Melungeon people is such an incredible thing.
I'm from near that area and it breaks my heart to know that people for good reason felt like they had to hide their identity.
It was such a great full history.
One of the few papers I ever wrote in school that I was somewhat proud of was of your people.
I was taught that too! My grandmother passed for white …she was a Melungeon but practice mostly Native American cultures privately) and she was disappointed I wasn’t fair enough. She said my hair saved me when it is straightened. I’m from Virginia and most of my family on both sides are from Virginia and NC. I recently connected to my Native American ancestry was able to connect it to more than 8 different tribes within my last 3 generations. FYSA- All 4 of my immediate grandparents all knew each other.
…but, then you became anemic, vitamin deficient, shoulder roller, cancer prone and CoVid#l9/Sars platformer…
@@nytn North Carolina's
Free People of Color
1715-1885
Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.
Louisiana State University Press
Baton Rouge
Indies, and a variety of individuals with mixed ancestry. They sometimes used "free negro,"
"free mulatto," "free mustee," and "free black" interchangeably with "free person of color," but
"free person of color" was the most frequently used term. In addition, this seems to be the term most widely accepted by those who fell into the category. For these reasons, "of color" is the term I use throughout this book.
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century historians have used "negro," "black," and "African American" instead of or in conjunction with "person of color." Yet to embrace their usage is to accept that racial categories are fixed to specific groups of people with specific collective his-tories. These scholars' usage of categories suggests that terminology can shift, but the people those categories describe are essential, historical groups. The evolution of racial categories, however, is more complex. All of these terms, especially "African American," are loaded with twentieth- and twenty-first-century connotations of African ancestry, which do not necessarily apply to the subjects of this study or their descendants. As this book demonstrates, not all individuals categorized as "free people of color" had African ancestry, and they are not collectively the ancestors of people described today as "blacks" or "African Americans." Large numbers of people who today are the descendants of "free people of color" self-categorize or are classified by others as "white" and "Indian." 1 The story of free people of color may be one of the best examples of racial categories being made and remade in American history. Addition-ally, some older descendants of free people of color have explained to me that their ancestors
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understood "black" to be a derogatory term and not one they embraced as a self-descriptor.
These assertions are confirmed by the contrasting use of terminology between nineteenth-century radical proslavery propagandists, who frequently used the term "black" in their writ-ings, and other North Carolinians, who commonly used "of color." 13
I have found evidence that the category "free people of color" included individuals without
African ancestry, most notably Native peoples. Scholars of Native American history have uncovered numerous examples of Native people being categorized as "black," "colored," or
"mulatto."14 Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatu argued that such labeling of Native people was a form of "documentary genocide." is I agree that such labels obscure ancestral distinctions. I also think and show, however, that racial categories have never truly acted as accurate indicators of ancestry. Whites in nineteenth-century North Carolina were quite aware that they had branded Native peoples as "colored" and even after such labeling retained memory, or at least a belief, that certain free people of color were Native peoples. With this understanding, I urge scholars to reimagine the genesis of racial categorization for Native peo-ples. In the United States, as in other parts of the Americas, all Native people did not fall into the "Indian" category. Some Native people lived under the designation "colored," experienced the legal limitations associated with such a designation, lived in communities in which racial categorization was imposed and not self-ascribed, and described themselves as "colored" people while still retaining memories of their indigenous .
Love the work you do
I hope you will be willing and able to keep bringing this type of history to light.
It’s important because this country prides itself on identity.
Danielle, I commend, for teaching our history, this the history that they want to hide, thank you for sharing
They don't hide, ppl just dont think to look, get mad when the Black academics point it out and teach our ppl then pass anti CRT/DEI evidence based research material , influence public opinion and BAM!!! .... no one cares for the information documented
Who’s hiding it?
It needs to be taught. History cannot be "white washed". Our children NEED to be taught it so that it doesn't get repeated again.
@@joeywho534every white Republican. Banning books and trying to prevent critical race theory. They are the ones wanting to hide it.
If you are worried about yts 'repeating history ' then I would say your fears are unfounded. Compared to yts elsewhere in the world, US yts are among the most passive. In addition, the yt population in the US, like all western Industrialzed countries, is below replacement levels in terms of birth rates. @jamiecasacagaleano7355
I would love to see you do more deep dive on the subject. I found in studying my own family history, especially since it records the change in nationality from census to census. Sometimes going from mulatto to black, or from native American to mulatto to black. Is interesting how narrow the census became at one point
Often times the reason that happens is due to the census tacker, but other times it was due to folks changing their racial identity. For example, there have been cases where white women and/or white men would willing accept being label as black or mulatto in order to be able to legally stay with their family. I do know of particular base in Virginia that a census taker was purposes misidentifying Native American to Black in order to setup the stage for a land grab, as without a Native American population than there is no need for reservation and thus that land becomes open to purchase.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana. Keep up the good work!
YES! I would LOVE to see a deep dive into this topic. My mother was born in Virginia and her family was listed on the Plecker list of people who were trying to pass. This deeply affected my family with generational shame and trauma that we are still working through. And I know that we are not alone. Integrating this knowledge is an important part of understanding our family's story. Thank you!!
You are heroric and brave to fearlessly explore the intricate🎉 history of your family and the human family in such a personal way. Thank You and Bless You!
Thank you for your research and work you do. I’m learning so much! Much appreciated!!!!❤
Danielle , you were starting to cry again. I told you that you are an emotional girlie , which is part of your charm !!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Im glad that the Hartless family was finally mentioned. My grandmother (my dad’s mother) was a Hartless from Rockbridge county VA. And that side of my family was most definitely of some sort of a mixture. Some are listed as Monican indian or Mulatto. Verry interesting! Keep up the great work!
How fascinating that your family is spoken of. This is a piece of your history.
My family was from VA. My grandmother sometimes passed as white.
Same. My grandfather in VA, similarly, passed as WT.
My father's great grandmother (from VA) was born in the 1880s and he remembered going to her funeral in the 1960s and he said she had blonde hair.🤔
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Very moving I don't understand why you don't have more subscribers if you do not learn about the past we are doomed to repeat it
Thanks!
Thanks so much ❤️
perfect analysis, this was great. a lot of people don’t dedicate time to learning this history because it can be painful. the work you’re doing is admirable, i appreciate you sharing your journey with us.
and you’re absolutely correct about the importance of dialogue. too many generations have gone without having this conversation, it’s necessary to move past this
Keep up the good work Danielle. These are stories that need to be told. ❤💯
Remember Louisiana was so mixed up they had among the strictest with 1/32nd rule going back to a great great grandparent Black'makes you 'Black'.
The irony about that rule is that in terms of genetics, once an ethnicity falls below 25% in a new individual the chances of the ethnicity influencing phenotypical features like outwards appearance starts to plummet fast. Like crazy fast.
@@starventureI'm sorry can you expound a bit further like make an example
Yep, in the early 1970's they decided that. Before that it did not matter how far back your black ancestor was. If you had a 3rd great grandparent black but the rest white, you were white by the new law made 50 years ago. Before that if you had one ancestor no matter how far back you were black thanks to Jim Crow. I watched a few Louisiana Creole videos, and one fellow said in the 1930's there were plenty of judges that would change their a white in appearance family's race to white if they paid them enough money. Most Creoles refused to do that.
@@peachygal4153 There was a well known miscegenation case in Mississippi, as there was charges brought of a descendant of Newton Knight for trying to marry a white woman. I believe the descendant was 1/8 black, but because his ancestor was so well know they made a case out of it.
Virginia had this long before Louisiana and had larger populations of free people of color than Louisiana
Very glad that you are covering this.
Are those laws still in effect? Watch any heritage program that does DNA and you will see there is no racial purity.
The way you said, "This is a law!" Have you examined slave laws that are still on the books and still used in courts ?
Your passion is why I’m such a fan 🙂. I definitely understand why this is so emotional for you. These revelations are a confirmation for some and an embarrassment for others. So this information angers both sides, which means it’s something that shouldn’t be ignored if we are to grow as human beings
As a tri racial person from Virginia who looks and is classed as "white" I LOVE your work! Keep at it.
Wait till you find the connection between Plecker, the Not sees and the Gaulton Institute in England.
Happy hunting!
Yeah, this is crazy. I'm from Virginia born and raised and I know about this know all about it.
Hi Danielle im from a small county Charles City Virginia that neighors Jamestown settlement and Richmond Virginia.my ancestors are from here and still reside. majority of the county was classified as Mulatto and where the Chicahomony tribe resides. There were last names of residents listed on Pleckers list for native not to be classified as so. We have lots of Plantations, few presidents from here like John Tyler and William and Benjamin Harrison, Sally Hemmings mother was from here before they went to Monticello also decendands of Pocahontas live here and her Father is buried at the Pamunkey res in King William Virginia which Chicahominy Mattaponi and Pamunkey were all one and Algonquin speaking then separated .Berkley Plantation is where they say the "First Thanksgiving" was held.If you are interested please look up Charles City County Virginia,there is TONS of history and i would say this is one of the areas where America was started. Thank you.
Charles City all day my family is Cotman and browns I'm supposed to be kin to William Henry Harrison and Zach Taylor
Wow! Loved the graphics with the globe. You make some of the best videos on TH-cam! Keep 'em coming Danielle! ☺️ YES DO A DEEP DIVE. I'm already with you on Patreon. 🎉
Well done. You work so hard to share interesting little known history with us.
My father's side of the family has basically always lived in Richmond like we do now. A couple years back, he had an interest in attempting to uncover his family tree. It quickly became apparent how difficult this was going to be for not only a black man, but a black man in Virginia who's family was directly affected by this paper gen0cid3.
He found old documents before 1924 in which he had ancestors who identified as "Native American" or "Mulatto." After 1924 they were all colored. This is huge because it prevented anyone with this native american heritage from claiming sovereignty over the land and from organizing into communities. Thus the white colonizers no longer have to worry about the indigenous fighting for the landback because now you are black- "colored."
All of this is relevant. Institutionalized racism started 400 years ago and all the effects of that haunt us to this day. This was used to prevent colored, mixed, and native families from getting in on the freedoms and priveliges of the white man. Something that was an understandable goal for people of that time. And because these folks were officially designated as non-white, justfully or not, were injustfully forced into ghettos, prisons, and the margins of society simply for existing. This goes on even to this day. Even after the 60's where Luther King Jr. made progress for civil rights in America- systemic racism still needa to be addressed as its effects will continue to ripple through time.
I am so proud of you and what you are doing. Thank you.
Virginia was central in passing eugenics sterilization laws. That's a sorrowful history, but such laws became practice in other states.
You're doing great work, Danielle. Keep going. There's history like this throughout our Southern states, and probably in more than a few Midwestern and even Northern and Western states. I've always heard that Oregon was not exactly a welcoming spot for people of color back in the day. My family is out of Texas, and I can only imagine what earlier generations had to endure. I've only done a little research into my family's history, but other family members have pursued the subject much more. We used to have family reunions that I attended to learn more, share that family history, and meet one another a few years back. But folks are getting older, and it's hard to maintain those ties. You've inspired me to try to learn more while the elders are still with us. Truth is, I've become one of the old timers. Time is crazy like that. Thanks for all your efforts. As Tupac Shukur once said: " You are appreciated". Carry on...
Why so many tried or succeeded in passing. Anybody with any “color” was treated like crap. Why do we talk about history? Cause it still
affects us today. You are an example just finding out who you truly are. As well as myself.
It amazes me, how so many young people see history as staring in the 1960s. So many (most) older American adults that you see every day have lived, loved, and raised a family in the environment in which the letter your reading was written... You still have a lot of Americans living well into their 80s and 90s; these witnesses are the people you need to consult with, so you can do more than read from a flat one-dimensional page. I'm just saying, reach out and ask those that felt the eerier of being other than.
Definitely continue digging because it needs to be talked about. You are doing a great job.
A place where people of various races worked together and sometimes intermarried , starting back in the 1700`s was at the "furnaces". Two examples are Cornwall Furnace , Lebanon County and Furnace Hill in Pottstown , Montgomery County , both in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Danielle, now you are getting closer to the really history that has shaped our country (U.S.) and ultimately the entire world. Thank you for your efforts.
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Thank you so much for this lesson! I live in Virginia, and there is a tremendous amount of history that still needs to be exposed. I am personally and directly connected with some of that history. I would love to see and hear more of what you have ot share
Yes they were often re-enslaved through kidnapping! This is why many American Indians/Black Americans left to other countries during that time, including Liberia! I just created a video on this very topic check it out! Love you approach to our history! Thank you
some went to Canada
I will! Thank you
I enjoy history. I love family history. My grandfather passed for white and was unaware of his own family history. He was very mixed and pretended to be racist to accommodate racist "friends." It took six years for him to get over his daughter marrying a black man.
Seeing how we all come from one people, it's a social construct so some groups can feel more entitled than others. I feel it's especially true with folks in India, northern Europe, and southern United States.
I lived in VA in the 80s.. they still had some crazy laws on the books even then
You shouldn’t have been surprised about Virginia, it was the “Home” of the Confederacy..
@@NeheC7 Read 'the Negro in the Making of America'. It has an interesting detail about wealthy Virginia men petitioning their legislature to declare their mixed children as White by law so as to marry into bvb the wealthy class.
My family has deep roots in VA. Thank you for this video; it is so on point. My grandmother was one of those persons who could pass for white. In fact, my mother, who was born 7 years after the passage of the Act, was the only one of her 8 siblings that was born in the hospital in Richmond. When the administrators saw her and my grandmother together, they classified her as white on her birth certificate. Notwithstanding the fact that my grandfather was of mixed ancestry (white, black, and native), but clearly presented as a light-skinned black man. My grandparents were married in 1924 in NY because they couldn't get a marriage license in VA. When my mother and father (who is black) decided to marry in 1960, they had to leave the state to go to MD, where the marriage licensing was less stringent than VA.
Because of Plecker's enforcement of this heinous act, thousands of native peoples' identities were systematically wiped out of existence.
Also, the county is pronounced Pow-a-tan, not Pow-hattan.
Let us pray for unity and peace!
Your work is excellent. Please continue the deep dive. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Great topic , Danielle ! The documents are fascinating and demonstrate how entrenched the US is in racial identity. Please continue. Also: When were Italians, Jews, and the like codified as being white (if at all) ? Codified, as in legally accepted ? And why would your husband NOT be considered white - because of his PR heritage?
Now that I think about my great grandmother Lucy born in westmoreland va that I was told she’s India but other family members disregard.
Now I understand why
This is very true and important today!
Thank you. I think I suggested this topic to you some time ago.
Bring the truth into the light. There's an effort across the country to keep this kind of information buried.
Thanks for this.I live in virginia and just the other day.I was going to be denied healthcare if I didn't fill my race out on a form. I wrote that I was german and the woman took it. I was deeply offended
The one thing that makes all this classification crazy is depending on where you live in America people will say you’re whatever they grew up believing in . My reality check came when I was in the military. People didn’t know what I was until I identified myself as black in the Tri State area because of their multiracial background in those states. I thought it was clear that I was a black man because in New Orleans my look is mostly associated with how light skin black men look. I quickly realized when I was stationed in South Philadelphia that my look could also be associated with Italian, Puerto Rican and many other ethnic groups up north. I used to tell the people who lived in South Philadelphia that many of them would be considered black in Louisiana. Location really plays a huge part in all of this. To be honest all of these classifications should be eliminated but that would never happen because of racism.
@daharris41 , It would have been " interesting " to hear you tell the former mayor Frank Rizzo , " Hey Frank , you`re Black ". Rizzo , who was awarded " Klansman of the Year " by the K.K.K.
@ if Frank had a dark complexion he would have been called black in Louisiana. I don’t care how racist or committed to their cause he was. Go google how they were lynching Italians in New Orleans.
@ Just to clear I don’t care what anyone calls themselves. I’m strictly speaking on how many people in the Northeast would be considered in Louisiana by their appearance only. There’s a reason why this young ladies grandmother went to New York and not Alabama.
I tear up when I read stuff myself it hurts but a spirit keeps me searching for them
Thanks! Walter Ashby Plecker.
THANK YOU!
Don't stop she's right on point🥰🎉
The audacity he wrote with in that letter, as though we aren't confused enough. We're then made to omit our ancestors in one form or another. You are one youtuber that helped me on my journey. I appreciate you and hoping you can sort this all out❤
Im so glad you are here!
@@nytn Always, it's definitely not fair but neccessary to know who we are. Keep up the good work💓
This is my Great Grandfather Owen Franklin Weaver (standing), born in North Carolina about 1845, moved to the Weaver settlement in Grant County, Indiana where he lived in Jeremiah Shoecraft's household. He enlisted in the Civil War in 1865 and married Henrietta Shoecraft in 1869. He purchased 162 acres in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1895. Following the massacre of African Americans in Tulsa in 1922, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he died in 1929. (Jeremiah and Henrietta Shoecraft were the grandchildren of William Shoecraft and his wife Bicey Nickens).
Plecker is the same individual who during that same time frame conducted certain physical and unconventional “tests,” to determine which members of the Lumbee community in NC were indeed, in his mind, Indigenous in their effort to achieve federal recognition at that time. As a result, the group was split into two with the “approved” group achieving federal recognition while the other group is still fighting for recognition. His issue was that all of them appeared to have African ancestry. It was a dehumanizing experience. The approved group, it appears, has since been in conflict with the remaining group. My second-great grandfather, based on DNA, is a descendant of the Lumbee community - (pre-Civil War - and that’s important to know and is a separate topic altogether).
Yes, I am hoping to cover most of this in the rest of the series. It is absolutely shocking to read on
In the 40s or 50s the Lumbees went thru the courts to be officially designated as 'white' not Indian.
Don't you DARE let anyone tell you who you are! YOU know. If they cannot accept it, that's their problem, not yours. I am so sick of this country being so damn devisive and hiding people's history. You know what we are? Homo sapiens. It's our ethnicity, ancestry and culture. Whatever you say you are, I accept it. Please don't let people bully you, okay. You step over them, dust off your feet and keep going, hear me? Many blessings to you and your family! Take care...
This is a fascinating subject. I think that to help put more context around this, we would pull the VA census records from 1920 and 1930 and compare them by the numbers of the increase or decrease in population after this integrity act.
Also, other states didn't follow this act as much as Plecker tried to persuade them to their cause.
My parents and grandparents and great grands are the people who lived through this and sadly at 50 years old I had to learn of this through learning my DNA and ancestral roots because they were taken back in the 90's! This is the awakening, the redemption and judgement on the whole entire world! 🔥🙏🏾🕊️
DNA can only tell you who your close relatives are. Many people think it can tell you what countries you’re from. But you may know this already 😊
@ That is not true. DNA reveals your ancestry which is your bloodline. The actual history of travel of where they originated from and how they moved and where they lived over time. And this is biblical. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.”
Leviticus 17:11 KJV
If you read the Bible, and read Genesis 6 forward, you will understand the dynamics of the world were changed after the flood.
@ Did you know the FBI collects this information? “Do not wrestle with flesh and blood but against principalities and powers’
@ I am not afraid of any man. I only fear the LORD and he is with me. “In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.”
Psalm 56:11 KJV
@ “In God I will praise his word, In God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.”
Psalm 56:4 KJV
So appalling there are no words😢
Danielle please don't cry😢
You're doing God's work in these TH-cam streets, hold your head up and stay strong!!
I wish i could send you a picture of my great great grandmother born enslaved in Richmond so you can see how pernicious things were.
Thank you for this. 🙏🏾
I’m a native of the Shenandoah valley of VA. and I’m a descendant on my father’s side of an Irish indentured servant who came to the VA. Tidewater from Northern Ireland in the mid 18th century and who worked for 7 years on a tobacco plantation until he got his freedom and eventually wound up in the Shenandoah valley. My mother though was an olive skinned Sefardic Jew from Brooklyn NY. who my father met and married in NJ. while he was stationed at Fort Dix when he was in the Army and both my mother and I experienced a little bit of anti semitism where I grew up yet with her olive skin and dark curly hair some ppl thought she was part black and she experienced a little bit of racism too as did my father for marrying her
These things directly affected my family. We are from North Carolina and the same things happened to them.
Some of us did know about it. We talked about it in our family and now on my FB pages.
Grateful for all the people who have been keeping the conversations going
Thank you so much for your hard work. My dad's family comes from Northern Louisiana, so I grew up around these discussions related to passing and colorism. How can U.S. history not includ the discussion of race, it's impossible, and it's intentional. Yet, the idea of passing not be discussed as a way people tried to escape the pain and restrictions. Please start writing the chapters that should be included in U.S. history.
Virginia has the one of the oldest settlements. Virginia is also a CIS. CIS is Commonwealth Independent States.
There is an Asteroid named for Virginia.
Virginia State Flag has a warrior goddess defeating a tyrant. It is Athena. She came for her sister Minerva. 😊
In Louisiana, they had a law that classified mixed people as being black if they were 1/32nd African blood (the "one drop rule"). That law was repealed in 1983.
Love your videos
I have had the same experience as you doing my husband's family history and when he was growing up he was specifically told that if anyone asks what he was he was to tell them he was white because his mother was scared that they would take him away because that's what the government used to do
Good morning neighbor lady, from Copperhill Tn. 😊😊😊
I applaud you for searching for the truth.
Thank you so much for your channel.
So nice of you
The Weaver family originated with three men, probably brothers: Richard, John and William Weaver (born about 1675-1686) who came as indentured servants from India, probably by way of London, and were free in Lancaster County, Virginia, before 1710. They blended into the free African American community of Lancaster County, and spread to Hertford County, North Carolina, where there were 169 "free colored" people counted in Weaver households in 1820.
I'm connected to the weavers but haven't figured out exactly how yet
Thanks for bringing this subject up - this is history that people should know. I have ancestors that were free people of color in NC before the Civil War. They moved to Virginia after the War and passed as white. My great-grandfather lived into the 1930s, so he, his children and grandchildren lived through this 1924 law. Plecker had a county-by-county list of families his agency suspected that were passing. I dug around online until I found a scan of that list and our name was not on it... so Plecker never suspected my family!
Happy new year and I was hoping that I would run across your channel again. I had a couple come into my store last week , both whom I assumed were white , and when I saw the Indian jewelry and complimented it , the woman began to explain that her great great grandmother was indigenous Indian and because THEY WERE BEING MURDERED IN MASS😡… that they began marrying their oppressors and attempting to marry out their complexions in order to attempt to survive. This didn’t surprise me because I know that my own ancestors were subjected to this same persecution ( or the attempt to escape it there of ) but her candidness was refreshing because she OWNED IT 🤯!!!
I don’t know how this is going to help you if it actually would at all but again, YOUR STORY IS NOT UNIQUE and your identity as BELIEVING YOU WERE WHITE WAS ONLY A LIE AND AMONG THE MANY PROTECTION MECHANISMS AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY 😮
Danielle, Thank you for exposing this. I have family in Virginia, Carolinas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. My paternal great-grandmother was listed in Colored.I know she is an American Indian. This stuff matters and it’s only been 100 years ago. Keep doing what you do.
Ran across the "Doctrine of Discovery" while doing some research. It's an eye opener.
My mom was born in Lacrosse, VA and told me about my black, French and native heritage. They were married into the family through her grandparent/great grandparents. She told me her teacher was native American but classified as colored. Most in our family were mulatto in the 1800s then colored. She taught them native dances to preserve the culture. We were related to her somewhere down the line. It’s always been about race. They tried to preserve their culture but if you see the recognized tribes they mainly look white now. They don’t recognize you if you looked black. One even told me too many black people have a hang up on being native. They want to deny anyone else has a right to anything except those they recognize.
You are referring to Afro Indigenous People, everyone should use that term to dispel any confusion as some People love to misclassify what real Natives, real Afro Indigenous with ancient Black American theories, or use a one drop rule or racial purity as to keep mixed people from identifying with one of their ancestries.
Very interesting video. Just want to thank you for having made it
Danielle it's still ongoing today, I have studied my genealogy and it seems there is a big drama that certain genealogy sites have erased a lot of woman who were multi racial listing them as unknown esp ones descended from Jane Newman Chiles/Osteen/Littlepage/Chambers/Presley who all were born in Virginia.