Interesting point...
Regarding the mulato slave, my uncle bought a mulata
slave with a young child in the Jerez slave market,
circa 1732,  what ever happened to all the slaves that
were set free, later on?  I'm sure they just didn't
disappeared.  I believe they were assimilated among
us.

Alberto Duarte Prieto
Santa Maria, California

--- Erlinda Castanon-Long <longsjourney@...>
wrote:

> My family did this too.  My mothers brother is
> married to my fathers 
> sister. My aunt and uncle never had children but we
> often joke that 
> thier kids would have looked just like my brother,
> sister and I! It 
> took years for my maternal grandmother to get over
> this, my maternal 
> line is fair skinned with blue eyes and my paternal
> line is dark 
> skinned. I believe my grandmother picked up her
> attitudes about skin 
> color in Mexico.  Her fist question with
> grandchildren was always 
> about their skin  and eye color.. This is also the
> grandmother who's 
> line is where I found my Mulato slave line... I
> honestly don't think 
> she knew...
> 
> In Tamazula Jalisco, my maternal grandfather's
> sister Rosa married his 
> mother in laws brother Maximiano years before he
> married my 
> grandmother. I'd have to assume that's how he met my
> grandmother... My 
> aunt had photos that say these were the children of
> Maximiano and Rosa 
> but no thought to mention they were double related. 
> It seemed to be 
> norm in Mexico for there to be 20 year spans between
> first and last 
> child so the age differences bring suitors that are
> family or friends 
> from more than one generation.  When I have no ages
> I try to put at 
> least 20 or 25 years for aprox. birth date but then
> I find a record of 
> a 42 year old widower marrying a 14 year old girl 3
> months after his 
> wife dies in childbirth with their 14th child.  They
> then go on to 
> have another 11 children. Can you just imagine being
> a mother of 14 at 
> age 14! That had to  be an arrainged marriage.
> Linda in Everett
> 
> 
> 
> 


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