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Originally posted by £100
You're right, she was perfectly half of each.
Name: Agnes Deeauen
[Agnes Derouen]
Race: Mulatto
Able to read: No
Able to Write: No
Her French name Derouen is characteristic of her whiteness, her inability to read or write is characteristic of her blackness. And before you pounce on me for being "racist" I'm talking in historical terms - American blacks in 1920 had poor literacy rates. Skin colour characteristic of both.
But she looks much whiter than black in that particular photo. Her facial features are extremely European (French to be specific).
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She was mixed with Native American, French, and African American.... so of anything she was more ethnic than Caucasian.
And while im well aware of the fact that most blacks couldn't read or write who's to say she was not one of the ones who could, so that statement is not a fact. And her race was Creole, and where did this receipt even come from?
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