Essentially his mother's side is all ecclesiastical or seafaring Spaniards who settled in Cuba and came to the States at the turn of the century (because it was pre-castro, it's fine with me).

His patriarchal lineage is all Italian except one of them had a side-piece in New Orleans and he descends from the whore line, not the wife's line. He name of this family was Prevost and the line wasn't given his father's name.

The whore line was french by way of Quebec of course down to New Orleans where they got into some slavery shenanigans.

"Pope Leo descends from a long line of individuals — at least 17 — who were identified in various records as “mulatto,” “mulatress,” “mulâtress créole,” “free person of color” and “quadroon"" in the registries and newspaper articles that are really well researched. Naturally they all owned slaves, even the freed black ones and the Man O'Wars.

for nyuug:

"Does his family history mean Pope Leo is Nigger? That depends on definitions, whether legal, historical or conventional. The historian Daniel Sharfstein points out that while the 1865 Tennessee Black Code defined “Persons of Color” as everyone “having any African blood in their veins,” most legal definitions in the 20th century of who was “Black” depended on the measurement of supposed “fractions” of ancestry, such as one-fourth or one-eighth, which were arbitrary and extremely difficult to gauge (as well as entirely unscientific). By 1910, Louisiana law classified anyone “with any appreciable mixture of Negro blood” as a “colored person.” At least 10 other states followed with their own laws of “hypodescent” — the notorious “one-drop rule.” In 1924, Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act defined as a “white person” anyone who had "no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian.”

Thanks for you time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736705&forum_id=2#49008797)

The black was all on his mom's side and they were wealthy slave owning mulattos not whores.

Improve your reading comprehension

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736705&forum_id=2#49008978)

Of course given there was also Hispanic blood I would think the term MULLATRINX is more correct.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736705&forum_id=2#49008803)