And some of them that had intermarried with whites and slaves and had mixed blood passed themselves off as Black Irish or Black Dutch to avoid being labelled In

And some of them that had intermarried with whites and slaves and had mixed blood passed themselves off as Black Irish or Black Dutch to avoid being labelled Indian and sent west. This allowed them to keep the homes and businesses their families had founded and maintain their places in white society. They just needed to look believably white.