Of the slave-owning families, 78 percent claimed some white ancestry.
They lived according to their appearance and mostly white ancestry.
In fact the majority of African Americans have white ancestry but are still considered black.
Blacks sampled in those two locations had more than 25% white European ancestry on average.
People with both black and white ancestry, for example, would be able to check both boxes.
I can't really find anything to suggest white ancestry.
It is known that he was an American of mixed black and white ancestry.
About 75 percent of those were of white European ancestry.
And about 85 percent of these are not of white European ancestry.
Most black people in America have some white ancestry.