Reply #105: per the 'one-drop rule', these "white slaves" were *black*...

[NorthernSpy]

The real irony is that the very same neo-nazi types who love to dwell upon the plight of the much-fabled "white slave" are themselves the first to reject any attempt by a person of partly African ancestry to call him or herself "white". Judged according to white supremacist ideology, the vast majority of these white slaves were genealogically "impure", and therefore NOT white -- by definition.

Clearly, the one-drop rule (A.D. Powell, whose article you cited, calls it "hypodescent") is stupid. But it's no stupider than anything else that racists do -- including making an arbitrary attempt to recategorize some long-dead slaves in hopes of convincing the gullible that whites were the "real victims" of American slavery.

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