This response appears to be a complete non sequitur. I referred to the non-existence of slave children of white mothers and slave fathers. Such children, being slaves, would have nothing to do with any "free black community". In any case, marriages between white women and non-white men were very rare compared to matings between white men and non-white women. As in most frontier societies, white men greatly outnumbered white women, and white men had (in general) much more wealth and power than non-white men.
You are wrong though. I imagine if you just spent time on the first two pages of a google search or used wikipedia as a sole source your view point would seem very real however that is not the case.
This compilation of 200 names are associated with free people of color families by Paul Heinegg and J. Douglas Deal.
1620's: Carter, Cornish, Dale/Dial, Driggers, Gowen/Goins, Johnson, Longo, Mongom/Mongon, Payne
1630's: Cane, Davis, George, Hartman, Sisco, Tann, Wansey
1640's: Archer, Kersey, Mozingo, Webb
1650's: Cuttillo, Jacobs, James
1660's: Beckett, Bell, Charity, Cumbo, Evans, Francis, Guy, Harris, Jones,Landum/Landrum, Lovina/Leviner, Moore, Nickens, Powell, Shorter, Tate, Warrick/Warwick
1670's: Anderson, Atkins, Barton, Boarman, Bowser, Brown, Bunch, Buss, Butcher, Butler, Carney, Case, Church, Combess, Combs, Consellor, Day, Farrell/Ferrell, Fountain, Game,
Gibson/Gipson, Gregory, Grimes, Grinnage, Hobson, Howell, Jeffries, Lee, Manuel, Morris, Mullakin, Nelson, Osborne, Pendarvis, Quander, Redman, Reed, Rhoads, Rustin, Skipper, Sparrow, Stephens, Stinger, Swann, Waters, Wilson.
1680's: Artis, Booth, Britt, Brooks, Bryant, Burkett, Cambridge, Cassidy, Collins, Copes, Cox, Dogan, Donathan, Forten/Fortune, Gwinn, Hilliard, Hubbard, Impey, Ivey, Jackson, MacDonald, MacGee, Mahoney, Mallory, Okey, Oliver, Penny, Plowman, Press/Priss, Price, Proctor, Robins, Salmons/Sammons, Shoecraft, Walden, Walker, Wiggins, Wilkens, Williams
1690's: Annis, Banneker, Bazmore, Beddo, Bond, Cannedy/Kennedy, Chambers, Conner, Cuffee, Dawson, Durham, Ford, Gannon, Gates, Graham, Hall, Harrison, Hawkins, Heath, Holt, Horner, Knight, Lansford, Lewis, Malavery, Nichols, Norman, Oxendine, Plummer, Pratt, Prichard, Rawlinson, Ray, Ridley, Roberts, Russell, Sample, Savoy, Shaw, Smith, Stewart, Taylor, Thompson, Toney, Turner, Weaver, Welsh, Whistler, Willis, Young
You had women such as this person born in 1845 whos great-great-great grandfather was an angolan man by the surname Mozingo
The majority of these family names were born of either african born men married to early metis or white families or the first generation of mixed race children who married into white lines in the 17th century. Only one of the names above is associate with a white male slave master.
We have record of a law enacted to insure the wellbeing of female english subjects and their children be protected from male indenturers in 1681 by Lord Baltimore of Maryland attempted to protect christian children by discouraging marriage not for purposes of race but rather the shifting views of non-angolan africans. He did this because a woman he had indentured was forced to marry an indentured african man.
"Forasmuch as divers free-born English or white women, sometimes by the instigation, procurement or connivance of their masters, mistresses, or dames, and always to the satisfaction of their lascivious and lustful desires, and to the disgrace not only of the English, but also of many other Christian nations, do intermarry with Negroes and slaves, by which means, divers inconveniences, controversies, and suits may arise, touching the issue of children of such freeborn women aforesaid; for the prevention whereof for the future, Be it enacted: That if the marriage of any woman servant with any slave shall take place by the procurement or permission of the master, such woman and her issue shall be free
Thomas Branagan who visited Philadelphia in 1805 observed:
"There are many, very many blacks who...begin to feel themselves consequential...will not be satisfied unless they get white women for wives, and are likewise exceedingly impertinent to white people in low circumstances...I solemnly swear, I have seen more white women married to, and deluded through the arts of seduction by Negroes in one year in Philadelphia, than for eight years I was visiting [West Indies and the Southern states]...There are perhaps hundreds of white women thus fascinated by black men in this city and there are thousands of black children by them at present."
Clarke lived in Spanish Florida; the mores of Spanish and French colonial societies were very different from the British colonies, especially in the mid- to late- 19th century. Florida's different culture was quickly swept aside by American settlement after US annexationo
His children and grandchildren lived in anglo florida and married anglo men
Louisiana's different culture persisted in some degree up to the Civil War, though the special status of the gens de couleur was significantly downgraded. When white supremacist "Redeemers" seized control at the end of Reconstruction, any remnants of that special status were obliterated.
The position of free people of color existed whether mixed or unmixed and in the Adams Onis treaty all free people of color maintained rights into the 19th century.
Often? There were a handful of such cases, widely regarded as scandalous.
One case was Richard M. Johnson, Vice President under Van Buren (1837-1841). Johnson was the only Vice President ever elected by the Senate under the procedure specified in the Twelfth Amendment. This happened because the presidential electors from Virginia abstained rather than vote for him, leaving him with exactly half of the total electors, not a majority. The Virginians did that because they were offended by Johnson's personal life. He had had a slave mistress, but openly acknowledged her and their two daughters, who married white men.
This case was so notorious that it was referred to by Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 debates with Senator Stephen Douglas. Douglas insinuated that Lincoln supported civil and soclal equality of whites and blacks, noting that he allowed Frederic Douglass to sit in a carriage with Mrs. Lincoln and other white ladies. Lincoln denied any such radical beliefs:
(emphasis added)
[Douglas had served as an Illinois judge; Johnson had been a militia colonel in the War of 1812, and was credited with personally slaying Chief Tecumseh. Both were Democrats.]
I think its great that you took time to respond to me but you clearly dont know the basis of American race relations nor the social contexts of why this was heinous in his case.