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She can't be half black and be a quadroon. If she is half black, she can be called a mulatto. Other wise as a quadroon, She is only 1/4 th black.i don't care which way it goes as long as it is consistent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.51.98 (talk) 22:09, 9 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Problematic racial description

Describing Lydia Hamilton Smith as "one-quarter African American" in present-day contexts serves absolutely no historical or factual purpose. Framing African American ancestry as a percentage of blood or genes smacks of scientific racism and pseudoscience, and also ignores the historical development of African American identity as a people borne of shared experience with oppression and struggle. Yes, terms like "octoroon," "mulatto," and "quadroon" were used during Hamilton Smith's lifetime to describe white-passing African Americans, which reflected the pseudoscientific understanding of race in the nineteenth century. These terms should be used and understood within their historical context. In our present-day understanding of race as a social construction, perpetuating outdated notions of race as biology is beyond reprehensible. Pinko1977 (talk) 02:33, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Stevens' relations

I tried cleaning up this page yesterday, but have no time to access the written sources listed, nor consult genealogical sources, much less Stevens' will and subsequent legal controversy. The original version said Stevens died with Smith and his two nephews at his bedside, and initially I assumed they were the two nephews he raised. However, when I looked at Stevens' article, it turns out that one of the nephews they jointly raised (and who had operated Caledonia Forge) died during the battle of Chickamauga. Since the other man's name was Simon Stevens, either he was another nephew, or (to my 20th century viewpoint) someone Stevens adopted for inheritance or other personal purposes. Any clarifications?

BTW, I left the blood mixture part in, not that I care about it and certainly not to highlight the mulatto/quadroon controversy elsewhere in this talk page, but because either that was important in Stevens' day, or to an earlier editor.Jweaver28 (talk) 15:27, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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