Then there is the poet Browning - who coioncidentally, under the American "one drop" criterion, would have probably counted as "black", as would his wife.

There'll come a day when that "one drop" thing will have the same significance in relation to African ancestry as it does today in the other case I mentioned in an earlier post, Irish ancestry (especially on St Patrick's Day). It'll be something people will be eager to claim, even when their claim might be a bit dubious. Roll on that day.