Black Dutch (genealogy)
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Genealogist and journalist James Pylant wrote that "a blanket definition cannot be given for every American family claiming descent from the Black Dutch."{{cite book |last1=Pylant |first1=James |title=In Search of the Black Dutch |date=2021 |publisher=Jacobus Books |location=Stephenville, TX |isbn=9780984185733 |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E6EsEAAAQBAJ}} Common interpretations of Black Dutch ancestry include Jewish, Spanish Dutch, Dutch Indonesian, Native American, Mulatto, African, and others.{{cite book |last1=Pylant |first1=James |title=In Search of the Black Dutch |date=2021 |publisher=Jacobus Books |location=Stephenville, TX |isbn=9780984185733 |pages=5–7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E6EsEAAAQBAJ}}[http://www.genealogymagazine.com/in.html Pylant, James (1997). "In Search of the Black Dutch"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308030107/http://www.genealogymagazine.com/in.html |date=March 8, 2012 }}, ''American Genealogy Magazine,'' Vol. 12, No. 1 (March 1997): 11-30 |
Genealogist and journalist James Pylant wrote that "a blanket definition cannot be given for every American family claiming descent from the Black Dutch."{{cite book |last1=Pylant |first1=James |title=In Search of the Black Dutch |date=2021 |publisher=Jacobus Books |location=Stephenville, TX |isbn=9780984185733 |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E6EsEAAAQBAJ}} Common interpretations of Black Dutch ancestry include Jewish, Spanish Dutch, Dutch Indonesian, Native American, Mulatto, African, and others.{{cite book |last1=Pylant |first1=James |title=In Search of the Black Dutch |date=2021 |publisher=Jacobus Books |location=Stephenville, TX |isbn=9780984185733 |pages=5–7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E6EsEAAAQBAJ}}[http://www.genealogymagazine.com/in.html Pylant, James (1997). "In Search of the Black Dutch"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308030107/http://www.genealogymagazine.com/in.html |date=March 8, 2012 }}, ''American Genealogy Magazine,'' Vol. 12, No. 1 (March 1997): 11-30 |
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Jimmie H. Crane wrote in 2006 that term ''Black Dutch'' appears to have become widely adopted in the Southern Highlands and as far west as [[Texas]] in the early 19th century by certain Southeastern families of [[multiracial|mixed race]] ancestry, especially those of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] descent.[http://www.nativepeoples.com/article/articles/164/1/The-Elusive-Black-Dutch-of-the-South/Page1.html Jimmy H. Crane, "The Elusive Black Dutch of the South"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511094957/http://www.nativepeoples.com/article/articles/164/1/The-Elusive-Black-Dutch-of-the-South/Page1.html |date=May 11, 2009 }}, ''Native Peoples Magazine'' When used in the South, it usually did not imply [[ |
Jimmie H. Crane wrote in 2006 that term ''Black Dutch'' appears to have become widely adopted in the Southern Highlands and as far west as [[Texas]] in the early 19th century by certain Southeastern families of [[multiracial|mixed race]] ancestry, especially those of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] descent.[http://www.nativepeoples.com/article/articles/164/1/The-Elusive-Black-Dutch-of-the-South/Page1.html Jimmy H. Crane, "The Elusive Black Dutch of the South"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511094957/http://www.nativepeoples.com/article/articles/164/1/The-Elusive-Black-Dutch-of-the-South/Page1.html |date=May 11, 2009 }}, ''Native Peoples Magazine'' When used in the South, it usually did not imply [[sub-Saharan Africa]]n admixture, although some families who used the term were of tri-racial descent.{{CN|date=August 2025}} |
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In addition, some mixed-race persons of European and African descent identified as Portuguese or Native American, as a way to explain their variations in physical appearance from Europeans and to be more easily accepted by European-American neighbors. By the late 18th century, numerous free mixed-race families were migrating west, along with [[white Americans]], to the frontiers of [[Virginia]] and [[North Carolina]], where racial castes were less strict than in the plantation country of the [[Tidewater (region)|Tidewater]]. |
In addition, some mixed-race persons of European and African descent identified as Portuguese or Native American, as a way to explain their variations in physical appearance from Europeans and to be more easily accepted by European-American neighbors. By the late 18th century, numerous free mixed-race families were migrating west, along with [[white Americans]], to the frontiers of [[Virginia]] and [[North Carolina]], where racial castes were less strict than in the plantation country of the [[Tidewater (region)|Tidewater]]. |
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