African Women by Varnette P. Honeywood, Ink on paper. This print is from the private collectiion of Nivea Castro.

This ignores that George Washington, the father of our nation, thought to be incapable of fathering children the old-fashioned way, the most prosperous slave owner of his time, owned many white slaves. His white slaves ran away from him just like and sometimes with his black slaves. Just days after the battles of Lexington and Concord, The Father of Our Country posted ads in the Virginia Gazette for the capture and return of eight white people. You can look it up.