{"id":2495,"date":"2009-10-26T00:57:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T00:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2015-05-11T13:13:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:13:25","slug":"the-mulatto-advantage-the-biological-consequences-of-complexion-in-rural-antebellum-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2495","title":{"rendered":"The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1162\/00221950260029002\" target=\"_blank\">The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/loi\/jinh\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Interdisciplinary History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/toc\/jinh\/33\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 33, Number 1<\/a> (Summer 2002)<br \/>\npp. 21-46<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1530-9169; Print ISSN: 0022-1953<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1162\/00221950260029002\" target=\"_blank\">10.1162\/00221950260029002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/people.clemson.edu\/~bodnhrn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Bodenhorn<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Economics<br \/>\n<em>Clemson University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although historians have long noted that African-Americans of mixed-race in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antebellum\" target=\"_blank\">antebellum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_South\" target=\"_blank\">Lower South<\/a> were given economic and social preference over those with darker skin, they have denied that people of mixed race received special treatment in the antebellum Upper South as well. Examination of data on the registrations of free African-Americans in antebellum <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a>, however, reveals that adolescents and adults with lighter complexions tended to have a height advantage, which suggests that they enjoyed better nutrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion in Rural Antebellum Virginia Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 33, Number 1 (Summer 2002) pp. 21-46 E-ISSN: 1530-9169; Print ISSN: 0022-1953 DOI: 10.1162\/00221950260029002 Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University Although historians have long noted that African-Americans of mixed-race in the antebellum Lower South were given economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14647,459,394,20,693],"tags":[749,748,20757],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-economics","category-history","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-howard-bodenhorn","tag-journal-of-interdisciplinary-history","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","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=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}