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White person  n.  A person of the Caucasian race (). Note: In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white person is construed as in effect (as of 1913): one not having any negro blood (Ark., Okla.); one having less than one eighth of negro blood (Ala., Fla., Ga., Ind., Ky., Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex.); one having less than one fourth (Mich., Neb., Ore., Va.); one having less than one half (Ohio). Since the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960's and 1970's, the term has little legal significance for some purposes, as in filling out questionnaires, a person's race is whatever the person claims it to be.






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"White person" Quotes from Famous Books



... remembered that slavery in America is not at all confined to persons of any particular complexion; there are a very large number of slaves as white as any one; but as the evidence of a slave is not admitted in court against a free white person, it is almost impossible for a white child, after having been kidnapped and sold into or reduced to slavery, in a part of the country where it is not known (as often is the case), ever to recover ...
— Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom • William and Ellen Craft



Words linked to "White person" :   Caucasian, Caucasian race, individual, white trash, white man, Semite, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Elamite, somebody, White race, whitey, paleface, Kassite, White people, honky, white, Aryan, honkey, person, Circassian, wasp, white woman



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