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The AHC here is to have Colored be a racial category as it is in South Africa and other countries, that would those with 50% and less African ancestry.

I imagine the main way to accomplish this would be to get rid of the idea of a "one drop rule", which perhaps could be done by having gradual manumission throughout the South in the early to mid 19th century (and the decline of cotton to precipitate that, the result of earlier boil-weevils/later cotton gin, etc.). Would this be enough to change racial perceptions so that lighter-skinned African-Americans would be considered "colored"? Or was it already baked in by then?

This is a similar thread from over a year ago dealing with the same topic.
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