{"id":12932,"date":"2011-03-28T03:01:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12932"},"modified":"2013-08-16T01:56:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T01:56:50","slug":"12932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12932","title":{"rendered":"The Migration from Black to White"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>African Americans began to migrate from black to white as soon as slaves arrived on American shores.\u00a0 In seventeenth-century <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colony_of_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a>, social distinctions such as class and race were fluid, but the consequences of being black or white were enormous.\u00a0 It often meant the difference between slavery and freedom, poverty and prosperity, persecution and power.\u00a0 Even so, dozens of European women had children by African men, and together they established the first free black communities in the colonies.\u00a0 With every incentive to become white\u2014it would give them better land and jobs, lower taxes, and less risk of being enslaved\u2014many free blacks assimilated into white communities over time\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Daniel J. Sharfstein. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=11122\" target=\"_blank\">The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White<\/a><\/em>. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. page 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Americans began to migrate from black to white as soon as slaves arrived on American shores.\u00a0 In seventeenth-century Virginia, social distinctions such as class and race were fluid, but the consequences of being black or white were enormous.\u00a0 It often meant the difference between slavery and freedom, poverty and prosperity, persecution and power.\u00a0 Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2766,2767],"class_list":["post-12932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-daniel-j-sharfstein","tag-daniel-sharfstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}