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From: "Gregory Ross" <>
Subject: Re: Research Question - "White" Dutch/"Black" Dutch
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 22:42:13 -0700


I'll throw in a speculation too. The first thing I thought of was that they
might have been Schweitzer Deutch (Swiss German). Over time, Schweitzer
could have been mixed up with schwarz (black). (Adjectives are declined in
German -- so that schwarzer also means black.)

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Subject: Re: Research Question - "White" Dutch/"Black" Dutch

> In a message dated 5/4/99 8:56:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> > My mother has always said her people were Black Dutch. I wonder if this
> > means they were from a certain area. Her ancestors come from
Pennsylvania,
> > Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois.
>
> My guess--and that is all it is--is that the theory that Black Dutch is
term
> derived from Plattdeutsch which meant Low Dutch comes closest to fact. I
> don't believe it has a thing to do with color or complexion or
> intermarriages. I do think your ancestors probably picked up the term in
the
> south when the name Plattdeutsch became Americanized.
>
> Joan
>
> Joan
>
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