One hundred years ago, a black girl in America was identified as white. Who is she? What is the reason?

/kloc-At the beginning of the 5th century, Spain and Portugal, as pioneers in the era of great navigation, took the lead in colonial activities. Then European countries set out from Africa and carried out worldwide slave trade. They transported slaves from Africa to the United States and sold them to local farmers for huge profits. Since then, there has been an insurmountable gap between blacks and whites, but a black girl crossed the racial restriction a hundred years ago and was recognized as white by the government. What happened?

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/kloc-In the 5th century, the American continent was still a paradise for Indians, who hunted and lived here until European colonists set foot on this land. They slaughtered native Indians and brought many black slaves as plantation workers. Since then, the contradiction between Indian aborigines, blacks and whites has been a huge problem that has plagued the United States. Even though slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865, there are still many black people at the bottom who don't have enough to eat and clothes.

Sarah is one of them. She is a black descendant of an Indian tribe and lives in Oklahoma. The local area is a famous American Indian tribal state, so many agreements have been issued to protect the rights and interests of Indians and blacks. One of the agreements is to give a lot of land to local Indian families. However, these lands are uncultivated wasteland. Not only can they not get income, but they also have to pay a lot of land taxes every year.

Sarah's family earns only a few dollars a year, but there are 64 hectares of wasteland, about 960 acres of land, and she has to pay 30 dollars of land tax every year. Because the quality of the land is too poor to grow, no one wants to buy it, which leads to the problem of food and clothing for Sarah's family.

become wealthy by foul means

Faced with this situation, Sarah's father appealed to the local court, hoping to sell the land. As a result, the local court banned Sarah's father from selling the 960 acres of land on the grounds that the state government agreed. Sarah's family had to scrimp and save and borrow money everywhere to feed this "wasteland", so they were burdened with huge debts, but soon things changed and the fate of Sarah's family changed.

19 1 1 year, Sarah's land was appraised by a company from the standard oil company of the Rockefeller family, an American oil tycoon. They spent a lot of money to rent this land and dug an oil well with extremely rich reserves here. This is the most famous Cushing oil field in the United States. Sarah's land has suddenly changed from a "wasteland" to a treasure. The oil wells mined by her family can produce 2,500 barrels of oil a day and can be sold for 300 dollars a day.

In 19 1 1, the value of $300 is much higher than it is now. A conservative estimate is equivalent to $7,500 now and $2.5 million a year. This made Sarah's family a famous rich man at that time, so Sarah was also recognized as white by the local state government and was pursued by many white people. Sarah, who became rich overnight, moved to a mansion in Mississippi and lived a rich life.

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Sarah was able to gain white identity and enjoy wealth safely after she became rich overnight, which was not only related to her oil fields, but also related to the American environment at that time. 19 1 1 year, black Americans began to fight for their own status, and huge domestic contradictions forced the United States to enact many laws to protect blacks and Indians. Under such circumstances, as a black descendant of an Indian tribe, Sarah was able to enjoy wealth safely. If we go back 50 years, not to mention the oil fields, even the freedom of Sarah's family may not be their own.