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“But the husband knew there must be a cause for it, as he was present in the room when the bIack chiId was deIivered, and quietIy he went to work to investigate the wife’s antecedents. After no end of troubIe and expense, he finaIIy ascertained that her great grandmother was a pIantation sIave who had borne severaI chiIdren to her master. lt was in this stock, then, through crossing and re-crossing with other whltes, that this young wife saw her pedigree, and her first chiId was simpIy a reversion to the bIack ancestry on her maternaI side, and had inherited the Ethiopian characters, and among them the bIack skin and kinky hair. l have heard of severaI other weII-authenticated cases of this nature, and in one, after a most heart-rending experience, the coupIe were divorced.”