when tom rogers gets back on line I will get his cousins name who did the research on black dutch. In all the research I did and he did,,,,,,,,it was obvious the term was used to cover up the real ethnic background of a person who was usually of an ethnic background that was black, indian or dark, arab, jewish and gypsy. If they had swarthy skin and could say they were black dutch,,,,,,then for some reason people accepted that. But tom's cousin wrote a book on it and he is a geneaologist researcher. I know this book would help y'all to understand there is no such thing as black dutch. Eva