APPENDIX B. 



SOCIAL DATA CONCERNING MISCEGENATION. 



(a) Bermuda. 



The brown-skinned negro is the characteristic negro of Bermuda. The 

 black-skinned negroes in Bermuda are almost entirely the result of imported 

 labor. When the government was building its dry dock and fixing up its 

 naval station, it brought many West Indian negroes up to work in Bermuda. 

 Some of them settled there and intermarried with the brown-skinned people. 

 The result is that there are more apparently "full black " people in the present 

 generation than there were in the past. Both the white and the colored people 

 regret this importation, not only for its effect upon the skin color, but espe- 

 cially because it has introduced a more lawless element. White men have 

 told me that formerly it was almost absolutely safe for women to be out alone 

 in the evening. Now they do not consider it quite so safe because "those 

 West Indian fellows" have made several disturbances. * * * The white 

 Bermudians have explained the brown skins of their colored people by the 

 common practice of the white masters to have children by their slaves. In 

 such a small territor}% where the number of slaves kept was comparatively 

 small, this practice would relatively soon affect the whole colored population. 

 In Jamaica, on the other hand, where the plantations demanded large num- 

 bers of slaves, the same practice of concubinage would affect a smaller ntmiber. 

 This smaller nimiber, being segregated, would form that mixed "colored" 

 class who are so proud of their white blood. For the pure blacks, after eman- 

 cipation, retired to the mountains and for a long time kept very much to 

 themselves. * * * The native Bermudians consider themselves, and are 

 truly, much superior to the Jamaicans. — Florence H. Danielson. 



(6) Jamaica. 



Mr. G. is a light brown colored man, interested in science and philosophy, 

 who gave Miss Danielson many details. His father was a strict mulatto and 

 his mother pure white, from Ireland, who was brought up by a colored family 

 after the death of her father (who was in the troops) from fever. He has a 

 very fair sister who married a white man, and one darker sister, deceased. 

 Mr. G. married a swarthy-complexioned woman \\ath some Carib blood, and 

 they have a son whose skin is very fair and who worked three years in New 

 York as a white man. When his father wrote that he was coming to America 

 to see him he replied : ' ' Please don't come, father ; you vAW spoil all my chances 

 up here!" So, Mr. G. did not go. As a result of domestic troubles Mr. G. 

 left his wife and, as he said, "got wild." He had two children by an almost 

 pure black woman, a mangro. Her father was pure black and her mother 

 sambo. Both children are of a rich brown sambo color, vn\h. curly negro hair. 



Mrs. B. is a little fairer than the average mulatto. She married an 

 EngHshman, has lived in England, has been several times to New York, and 

 has considerable money. Her two sons are about 8 to lo per cent N and might 

 pass for white in America; they were educated in good schools in England, 



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