Interesting thing with my 5th great grand uncle, he is listed as a person of colour and as white in different censuses.
Now apparently back then the race of the people was decided by the census taker? Not sure how accurate that is, it was what I was told.
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But if he was mixed then that might be why.
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But they were consistently at the bottom of all census records, which were apparently organized in terms of status in the community
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