Teaching The Quarry in Context

Chapter XXIX

 “For fear of bringing up as a white man a child with no sure sign of Negro blood, you ignored entirely his white blood. The scorn of white people for their own blood, of which they have so low opinion that thirty-one thirty-seconds of it cannot override one thirty-second of dark blood,” (p. 263)

One Drop Rule Defined

“‘But with some fine achievements on the other side. The abolition of slavery, for instance, and the enfranchisement of the Negro.’” (p. 265)

 

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