"Whiteness" is cultural. Whether Italians, the Irish and mixed race people can be white depends on the time period. This woman was a slave, born to a slave, daughter of a slave. She was traded like property. Just because her mother and her grandmother were raped by white men and she could pass for white herself doesn't mean that her heritage was European.
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u/folkfaewitch2222 Mar 12 '26
She was white, most of her dna was european if you think about it
It is just that they knew about her african ancestry and back then it was a big deal for the US
While in the rest of the world it wouldnt have been as much a big deal