I hate to boast about myself but if I may for a moment, I would like to go on record as being one of the first women of color to purchase an automobile, only second to the pressing comb inventor Madame CJ walker who purchased hers in 1916.

I purchased mine in 1919.

I never married nor had children because my daddy always said that one should never get involved with anything in which you couldn't walk away from in 10 minutes.  So if one ever needed to pick up and run away, they could do so without the burdens of a family to lug around.  Although my daddy had his cruelties when it came to the idea of family life, I can honestly say that he treated me and momma exquisitely.  We had the best that money could buy, or need I say... the best that my daddy could steal.

My momma and daddy were raised on the same plantation together, and were biologically cousins.   Master Becquette was my daddy's daddy, and Master's brother was my mothers Daddy. 

The Master always arranged for these types of relations between mulatto children, so often time's when the families would arrange the marriages between mulatto's, octoroons, and quadroons, they were usually first cousins or somehow related by blood. 

This tradition was a long held tradition made popular by European monarchy in order to keep the bloodlines pure.  The main idea was to eliminate any traces of black blood, so that the children could be introduced into polite society and marry into wealthy white families.  It's all part of the economics, another plot for Master to make more money. 

The one thing Master failed to realize was all this contrived and controlled race mixing slowed field production, as the mulatto slaves were not as genetically strong or adapts to heat and exhaustion as the full blooded Negro slaves.  In the process, this race mixing phenomenon created a group of "middle" people who felt superior to full blooded Negro's, but was actually physically inferior.