Oh, yes. That is covered in the series as well, in a number of ways, some quite appalling - records of white slave owners selling to other white slave owners their own mixed-race children.
Although this did actually bring about an interesting moment. The host of the series is descended in the direct male line from an Irishman, so one of the DNA tests they were doing traces him, not to an African people, but to the U Niall clan in Ireland - the former high kings of Tara. There's a scene of him visiting Tara and explaining all of this to some other tourists - all white - and one of the women tourists says that she's descended from the same clan and acknowledges the kinship.
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Date: 2008-02-17 01:18 am (UTC)Although this did actually bring about an interesting moment. The host of the series is descended in the direct male line from an Irishman, so one of the DNA tests they were doing traces him, not to an African people, but to the U Niall clan in Ireland - the former high kings of Tara. There's a scene of him visiting Tara and explaining all of this to some other tourists - all white - and one of the women tourists says that she's descended from the same clan and acknowledges the kinship.