I see: like the patriarchs of old our men live all in one house with their wives and their concubines, the Mulattoes one sees in every family exactly resemble the white children — every lady tells you who is the father of all the Mulatto children in every body's household, but those [Mulatto children] in her own [household], she seems to think drop from the clouds or pretends so to think ... Likewise, in the Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838–1839 (1863), Fanny Kemble, the English wife of an American planter, noted the immorality of white enslavers who kept their mixed-race children enslaved. But some white fathers established common-law marriages with enslaved women. They emancipated the woman and children, or sometimes transferred property to them, arranged apprenticeships and education, and resettled in the North. Some white fathers paid for the higher education of their mixed-race children at colour-blind colleges, such as Oberlin College. In 1860 Ohio, at Wilberforce University (est. 1855) owned and operated by the African Methodist Episcopal church, most of the two hundred subscribed students were mixed-race, natural sons of the white men paying their tuition. See also History of sexual slavery in the United States Female slavery in the United States Enslaved women's resistance in the United States and Caribbean Marriage of enslaved people (United States) Children of the plantation Slave breeding in the United States Freedom of wombs Rio Branco Law Slave Trade Acts Sally Miller Mater semper certa est Matrilineality References Slavery in the United States Legal history of the United States Legal rules with Latin names Multiracial affairs in the United States Native American history Pre-emancipation African-American history Slavery of Native Americans