Miscegenation in America started not in the thirteen original colonies but in Africa.

Miscegenation in America started not in the thirteen original colonies but in Africa. English, French, Dutch and American slavetraders took black concubines on the Guinea coast and mated with females on the slave ships. It should be noted that many Africans and Europeans were themselves the products of thousands of years of mixing between various African, Asian and Caucasian peoples.

Lerone Bennett, Jr., “Negro History, Part X: Miscegenation in America,” Ebony Magazine, (October 1962) 94.

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