Tom Rogers cousin did a report on black dutch and we had a discussion about the origin of this term. It is a mixture of different races and has a long history of how it evolved in early america if you had dark skin you were looked down upon many mixed blood lines, indians, whites, black, gypsies, spaniards, etc who were swarthy,,,,,,used the term black dutch to cover up their real ethnic makeup. the term was used in my family and after looking back over my geneaology from the rogers side i gathered we had gypsy, spanish, jewish, blood mixed in,,,,,,,but i am not sure i even called holland to find this group lol,,,they have never heard of black dutch. so i dont use the term anymore to describe my rogers side,,,,,,lol Instead i list all of our blood lines. Tom what is your cousins name who wrote a book on this. eva