| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In addition, before the Civil War, Virginia and some other states had legal definition of whiteness" that provided for people being classified as white if no more than 1/8 black. (For example, if not born into slavery, Thomas Jefferson's children by his slave Sally Hemings would have been classified as legally white, as they were 7/8 white by ancestry.
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