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The One Drop Rule
- 1. The One Drop Rule By KT Kuleck, Kevin Antonio, and Cristina Rangel
- 2. The Basics - The One Drop Rule is the belief that one single drop of African blood makes a person black, therefore they could be considered a slave. .
- 3. Unique Aspects A rule such as this was only ever recorded in the U.S., nowhere else. No other ethnicity was ever treated so drastically different in the U.S. Others with a minority in their ancestry did not need to hide it as the African’s did.
- 4. Various Other Names The One Black Ancestor Rule The Traceable Amount Rule The Hypo-descent Rule The hypo-descent rule refers to a person of mixed blood being at their lowest possible ranking.
- 5. The Beginning The idea of the one drop rule has no set past. It came around in the free states as some sort ideological thought. It spread to the south and was taken as an unwritten law. It was not written until the early 1900’s.
- 6. Our Opinions Cristina- I think the one drop rule was wrong because it was used to the white slave owners’ advantage. It ensured that they could rightfully have slaves, even if they were not fully black. KT- The one drop rule had its advantages, but only for the white people. Black people didn’t have anything to gain. There was no sense of fairness.
- 7. Our Opinions Part 2 Kevin- I think that the one drop rule doesn't do any justice on telling someone that they are black. Like if the person is only 25 percent black, then how does that make them full black? They have different racial backgrounds or at least another one, like being half black and half white. So I think they only used this rule for their own personal purposes, so they can still make the blacks feel like they have no part in society.
- 8. Sally Hemings Said to be Jefferson’s lover as well as his wife’s sister. She was ¾’s white, yet still a slave. Some of the only slaves Jefferson ever freed were her children.
- 9. Applicable Today The one drop rule still holds true today, though not by law. Great examples of this would be various celebrities. Halle Berry Barack Obama Alicia Keys Jordin Sparks Vanessa Williams All of these examples are only of half-African descent at most.
- 10. Bibliography Frontline: Jefferson’s Blood http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/mixed/onedrop.html A Knol by Frank W. Sweet http://knol.google.com/k/what-caused-the-one-drop-rule-c16# One-Drop Rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule