{"id":3077,"date":"2009-11-12T02:55:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T02:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2011-11-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T00:48:18","slug":"slaves-imported-from-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3077","title":{"rendered":"Slaves Imported from Africa&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The slaves imported from Africa by no means represented &#8220;pure Negro races.&#8221;\u00a0 Of the original tribal stocks, many had admixture of Caucasoid genes from crosses with Mediterranean peoples.\u00a0\u00a0 During the slave trade more white genes were added.\u00a0 The Portuguese who settled on the Guinea Coast had relations with the natives.\u00a0 The slave traders themselves were known frequently to have had promiscuous intercourse with their female merchandise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.unlv.edu\/spencer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer, Rainier<\/a>. &#8220;New Racial Identities, Old Arguments: Continuing Biological Reification&#8221;, In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1854\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the &#8220;Color-Blind&#8221; Era<\/a><\/em>, edited by David L. Brunsma, 89.\u00a0 Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006. \u00a0Originally published in Myrdal G., R. Sterner, and A. M. Rose.\u00a0 1944.\u00a0 <em>An American Dilema<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Harper and Row, 123.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slaves imported from Africa by no means represented &#8220;pure Negro races.&#8221;\u00a0 Of the original tribal stocks, many had admixture of Caucasoid genes from crosses with Mediterranean peoples.\u00a0\u00a0 During the slave trade more white genes were added.\u00a0 The Portuguese who settled on the Guinea Coast had relations with the natives.\u00a0 The slave traders themselves were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,459,6940],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","category-history","category-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","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=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}