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White Slaves The Mulattoes

 By Chance Kelsey, chancellorfiles.com

Chance: During the time period of slavery in America the white slave owners would have sex with their black female slaves, and the result often was children being born. Many slave owners did not help their mixed blooded mulatto children; they labeled these children black and let their black mothers raise them. These white looking children were considered slaves just like their mothers. The one drop blood rule that Southern whites followed said, that if you have one drop of black blood in you then you are black, no matter how much white blood and genetics you have in you.

Many people have been taught that because blacks were enslaved, this motivated the abolitionist and other Northern whites to put an end to slavery.

This is only partially true, some Northern whites and abolitionists wanted to help free blacks from slavery, but the major reason that motivated the Northern States to end slavery was because they saw mulatto Quadroons and Octoroons in slavery. Now the abolitionists were armed with evidence that white looking people were in slavery, they used this as a motivator to help inspire many Northern whites to go to civil war against the South.

Many whites who were journalists, religious ministers, travelers, business owners, etc went to the South and, they were horrified when they saw mulatto Octoroons and Quadroons who looked white and not fully black locked in slavery right along with blacks. Journalists, writers, travelers, and business owners started reporting what they saw, and when the Northern whites heard and read about mulattoes (Quadroons and Octoroons) who looked white being held in slavery they started to dislike the Southern Slave owners and the South in general. The fear that people who could pass for white were held in slavery motivated the North to go to war with the South.

Chance: The North believe that if a white person was accused of being a run away slave who escaped from the South, and went North with no one at that particular moment to vouch for the person and say, this is a white person I know his or her family — that white person could be taken into slavery. The North passed laws that prohibited (prevented) taking people into slavery with out a trial (if a person looks white and is accused of being a slave (Mulatto) who is passing for white the person could not be taken into slavery until the evidence was presented).

There had to be a legal hearing to verify the person is a mulatto slave who is passing for white. This also gave whites who were not mulattoes (Octoroons and Quadroons) but accused of being run away slaves the opportunity to verify that they were white by bringing in witnesses like family, friends, employers, and neighbors to vouch and verify that they were white and not mulattoes passing for white. Also later on the North passed laws that said — when a slave from the South makes it to a Northern state they were free and no longer a slave.

As previously stated, one of the major reasons the civil war started was because mulattoes who were Quadroons and Octoroons were in slavery. Yes there were other factors that helped motive the Northern whites to go to war with the Southern States — but the reality of white looking slaves was a major factor. And, it was the strongest factor of all factors.

Lawrence R. Tenzer Wrote a book titled “The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War: A New Look at the Slavery Issue”

This book explores the issue of white slaves and how these white looking mulatto slaves enslavement actually motivated the collective moral consciousnesses of the Northern Whites to go to civil war with the South — and end slavery.  Read Chapter Three

Read “The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War: A New Look at the Slavery Issue”     

Below Read Chapter Three of “The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War: A New Look at the Slavery Issue”    

By Lawrence R. Tenzer 

Like the patriarchs of old our men live all in one house with their wives and their concubines, and the mulattoes one sees in every family exactly resemble the white children–and every lady tells you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody’s household, but those in her own she seems to think drop from the clouds, or pretends so to think. –Mary Chesnut

 Regardless of the legal criteria established for being a white person, it is a fact that many white people remained enslaved under the partus rule. A most telling observation is that of Mary Boykin Chesnut, a Southern aristocrat and wife of James Chesnut, Jr., U. S. Senator from South Carolina. An entry in her diary for March, 1861 reads, “Like the patriarchs of old our men live all in one house with their wives and their concubines, and the mulattoes one sees in every family exactly resemble the white children–and every lady tells you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody’s household, but those in her own she seems to think drop from the clouds, or pretends so to think.” Particularly noteworthy is her choice of the word “exactly.” Imagine how it must have been for plantation mistresses to see day in and day out white slave children who looked the same as their own white children.

Worth noting here is that when Ben Ames Williams edited Chesnut’s diary for publication in 1905, he changed the word “exactly” to the word “partly.”From the wording of the original quotation, one may infer that it was quite common in antebellum households to have white children and white slave children who all looked like each other. Other accounts of white slaves were published during or after the Civil War. Reverend John H. Aughey lived in the South for eleven years and had both white and black congregations.

He told of preaching to slaves, some with red hair and blue eyes, a third of whom were just as white as he was. Dr. Alexander Milton Ross attended a slave auction in New Orleans where many of the slaves were “much whiter” than the white people who were there. In Lexington, Kentucky, Reverend Calvin Fairbank described a woman who was going to be sold at a slave auction as “one of the most beautiful and exquisite young girls one could expect to find in freedom or slavery….being only one sixty-fourth African.” After the Union had won the Battle of New Bern, North Carolina in 1862, Major General Burnside assigned Vincent Coyler to be superintendent of the poor. Coyler expressed disbelief at the complexions he saw.

“The light color of many of the refugees is a marked peculiarity of the colored people of Newbern. I have had men and women apply for work who were so white that I could not believe they had a particle of negro blood in their veins.” The memoirs of Chesnut, Aughey, Ross, Fairbank, and Coyler were published during or after the Civil War. Many other accounts were published all through the period before the Civil War in which travelers and visitors to the South made note of the white slaves they saw on plantations and at slave auctions.

Their expectation, of course, was to see slaves who were black or brown. On seeing white slaves for the first time, they often expressed surprise at how white those slaves really were. All of the accounts which follow were readily available to antebellum readers in the North. John Ferdinand Dalziel Smyth was an Englishman who visited America during the early 1770s and had his memoirs published in 1784. While in Maryland, he took notice of “female slaves, who are now become white by their mixture.

There are at this time numbers of beautiful girls, many of them as fair as any living, who are absolutely slaves in every sense.” Another eighteenth-century traveler was Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville, a Frenchman who came to America in 1788. While visiting a school for Negro children in Philadelphia, he saw “an octoroon, whom it was impossible to tell from a white boy.” Dr. Jesse Torrey mused on his interesting first experience with white slavery. His book, published in 1817, contains the following account:

“While at a public house, in Fredericktown [Maryland], there came…a decently dressed white man, of quite a light complexion, in company with one who was totally black. After they went away, the landlord observed that the white man was a slave. I asked him, with some surprise, how that could be possible? To which he replied, that he was a descendant, by female ancestry, of an African slave.