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Case 4. 



Gen. I. White father, a black mother; 

 Gen. II. Their mtjlatto daughter had by a white man 

 Gen. III. a "pass for white" who married a white woman and had 

 Gen. IV. Three sons and a daughter; (a and b) daughters, "olive" skin, 

 European ("good") hair; (c) fair skin and good hair (of a 

 "European type"); (d) fair skin, but with "suspicious" hair. 

 Compare also the Jamaican pedigrees 34, 40. 



Cases 5 to 7 were given by an intelligent colored physician; the first one 

 is of his own family. 



Case 5. 



Gen. I. Father, a colored man, about 15 per cent N, features European; 

 mother English, with light brown hair and eyes; nine children, 



Gen. II. (a) Son, as dark as father; (b) son, fair, straight brown hair, green 

 eyes; (c) son, olive skin, black wavy hair, other negro features; 

 (d) daughter, like (c) with black, slightly wavy hair; (e) 

 daughter, skin a light brunet, hair medium brown, eyes light 

 brown; married an Englishman and has two sons and one 

 daughter who are "absolutely white," (/) daughter, olive skin, 

 dark eyes and straight dark brown hair, married a white 

 planter and their children show no color, and some have 

 flaxen hair; (g) daughter, European features, straight nose, 

 gray eyes, light brown wavy hair, fair skin; (/i) son, light 

 brown eyes, perfectly straight black hair, white skin; married 

 a distinctly colored girl, with olive skin and gray eyes; they 

 have a son with milk-white skin and reddish, slightly curly 

 hair; (t) son, European features, light brown eyes and hair, 

 and white skin. 



Case 6 {A Prominent Jamaican Fauily). 



Gen. I. Father has a Uttle colored blood but barely shows it; mother has 

 straight black hair, shows colored blood in the skin, would 

 pass for a dark Spaniard. They have six children. 



Gen. II. (0) Son, looks hkc a tanned European, feature.s good, eyes gray, 

 hair light brown cropped close (curly?); (6) son, has very 

 fair hair, slightly inclined to curl, skin pink and white, face 

 florid; passes in "the States" for white, as does also his wife, 

 who has a little colored blood ; their cliild has blue eyes and 

 shows no trace of "color;" (c) son, good features, blue eyes, 

 fresh complexion; married an English girl and their child 

 appears pure white; (d and ?) two sons whose skin is darker 

 than their parents and hair distinctly negroid; (/) daughter, 

 shows no traits of "color," married a European, and has white 

 children. 



Case 7. 



Gen. I. A man of wealth with blue eyes and white skin had by a colored 



woman with blue eyes and "walnut" skin (say 15 to 20 per 

 cent N) two daughters. 

 Gen. II. They will pass for white in any country, (a) married an English- 

 man and has white children; (6) married a blue-eyed man with 

 a little colored blood which does not show; there are two 

 blue-eyed, light-haired children. 



