Understandings, different experiences, and somewhat different outcomes, and some absolutely understood that, and the reason they wanted to be voluntary negroes was effort on their part based on fundamental misunderstanding of the phrase, was to dispel the one drop myth, was as ad race radical way of saying that any reliance on blood or biology to determine race is ridiculous. Race is a social construction that works politically. Some of them were very canny in using it that way. What they didnt understand is that at the time, the phrase voluntary negro with a lot of currency in the day, it felt to the one preferable. Those who were volunteering negroes were blacks who looked so white they could have passed for white, but chose not to, and the most famous and celebrated voluntary negro was walter white behooves so white he was almost translucent. You cant get whiter. Blond hair, blue eyes. He refused to be identified as white. He encysted on his black identity, which he could claim beca
But british officials perceived to be in their interest. They might use it at the planters paid travel. Also if slaves were out. The expectation was made clear that if theres a slave revolt in trinidad they were supposed to help suppress the. They were supposed to catch runaways are not receive them into their communities. So its only in the 1830s the british will make a concerted effort, Parliament Passes law for the gradual emancipation through this conversation apprenticeship horrendously cheap on the west indies. Often enslave people get impatient with this and they will rise up and demand more immediate freedom. So it is a tangled process, but it is through it is around civil war. Thats fairly easy to do with the Political Center is in london in the planter class has limited power by the team 30s in parliament. Much less so than that. And he has studied so well when the planter passes far more in parliament and it was in 1830s. Another question here. This is the last one. Im just
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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the mornings on 2. It is sunday, august 18th. I am mike mibach. I am Claudine Wong. Spare the day, air day in effect. We will go to Rosemary Orozco to look at how this is wrapping up. Today is the warmer day of the weekend. Five to 10 degrees above yesterdays high. And low 50s to low 60s. At the moment. Mostly sunny and temperatures are going to soar in some cases. I will have the numbers for you, coming up. Also, the thunderstorms and red flag warning as we start the work week. I will have the current conditions, coming up. We begin with developing news from the north bay a truck crashes right through the front door of a house early this morning in petaluma. The house is unlivable. And they say the house is in sham believed and for a time propped up by the vehicle. We are live in petaluma where a search is underway for the driver. Katie . Mike, the home is not safe to stay in. That is the roof of the front porch which is the first thing the driver wi