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Descended from light-skinned slaves who enjoyed a privileged position in the plantation hierarchy, the "black elite" continues to hoard access to its boarding schools, social events, and churches: "Why," asks one pedigreed lady, "would I be socializing with some caseworker or mailman who goes to NAACP events?"
Spacers in the first category, which can be considered to be descended from ancestral spacers, have an average length of 55 bp ( n = 272).
Ball marvels that he may possess thousands of black "blood kin" who are descended from his ancestors' captives.
Tanned and beaming after a string of recent triumphs, Jack decides to introduce his old buddy to his "muse," Sarah (Sharon Stone)--a goddess of inspiration supposedly descended from the ancient Greeks.
The WP reports that the recent DNA test revelation that Thomas Jefferson almost certainly fathered a child with one of his slaves has energized an Illinois family's previous claim that it is descended from a liaison between a son of George Washington and one of his slaves.