Roy Johnson wrote: > I am surprised that there were no responses to my previous posts about the > tri-racial group in the upper south which included Paces. Since members of > this group were classified variously as white, mulatto, or FPC (free person > of color). Some of our non-matching Paces could come from this group, many > of whom were so light skinned that they could easily pass into the white > world and pass their name on. > To see this interesting story, go to > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pace/pacepix/Pace-Taylor/ > Roy Johnaon > ------------------------------- Many years ago, in the mid '60s I did service work from house to house, on the Bahamian Island of New Providence (Nassau Town) when it was still a British Colony and encountered many 'coloured' folk that were as light skinned as the local so called whites. Both groups were a coffee colour as coffee appears when milk is normally added. I was told that colonists from England came to the colony, in yore, and their descendents gradually became this light coffee colour, having no inter-relations, necessarily, with the local so called coloured folks there. My close friend who told me about this was from England himself and another from Australia. Both groups seemed to retain their characteristic features. The 'whites' were proud to have been just so many generations from England. Whether or not the races remained as pure, the colour seemed to come together as a common colour on that Island. Perhaps other British Colonists, such as from Malta, had settled on Bahamian Islands and the BWI while working the Merchant Marine Service. Maltese have this same colour and pass with British Colonial Citizenships in the Commonwealth. No doubt, many of these entered the colonial U.S. as they served on the British ships worldwide. Gord Pace