The White Slave, And The Politics Of Racial Determination, By Walter Johnson

According to the google dictionary the term race signifies, “A group of people identified as distinct from other groups because of supposed physical or genetic traits shared by the group.” Basically, race is identify on how someone looks, and how their DNA are form. For example, if someone has dark features, big nose and nappy hair these individuals are considered as Black. If you had light features, long straight hair and nice fair tone color you considered as White. No one really knows how biology fits into all of this, but apparently for some individuals race is base on biology. In the article, “The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s” by Walter Johnson who elastrate how race was determined in the 1850’s and how the case of Morrison and White puts a huge confusion between the two races. This case as allow the court to view race in a different manner. This women Alexina/Jane Morrison who considered
White. Alexina/Jane Morrison background is Black. Her mother was Black, and her father is unknown. Her father must have been White for her to pass as a White person. If Mr. White had identified her as a slave, she would have never got the opportunity to go in-front of the court. When she arrived to the court she did not have a class status that was another reason her case took so long. As for her Background, Alexina/Jane Morrison is Black. She had a black person blood running through her vain. She was a mix person black and white, but the society in the 80’s was not use to the idea of having a mix culture. They were blinded by having one culture and that is it. It is either one is Black or