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You still need to be sensitive to the fact that you are writing about a character of African American heritage/descent in a time of legal slavery which is why I recommended Black authors specifically.

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Please be aware of racist racial categorisation and hypodescent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon I don’t have any sources right now (read: I am tired and have a lot of writing of my own to be doing) but I have read historic accounts of people who were only 1/8 Black being removed from Whites-only spaces.

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This is one of my current areas of study in literature :)

The character himself does not identify as black. His race has nearly zero bearing on his personality. He views his white presenting skin as a leg up that makes his vendetta easy.