11/11/2025
I put my great-great-great-grandfather Ulysses on the screen for a reason.Because when you see “American Indian” and “mulatto” on a South Carolina record from the 1800s, you’re looking at something deeper than the narratives people try to throw on us today.Back then, a Black man couldn’t legally marry a white woman in South Carolina.Not in that era. Not under those laws. Not in that climate of hate, racism, and state-controlled marriage codes.So if he wasn’t classified as African…And he wasn’t classified as white…But he was married…Then you have to start asking the real questions people don’t want to ask.The term mulatto back then wasn’t just about Black + white. It was a catch-all, a label slapped on anyone whose ancestry didn’t fit neatly into the categories the state tried to force on people — including mixed-blood Indians.This ain’t theory.This is documentation.This is lineage talking.This is the truth they tried to bury, still standing.I’m not arguing with nobody.I’m just showing the paperwork.•
