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This is information already known. African Americans with the surname of Holeman/Holman; sometimes used interchangeably, can find their surname to a white or Caucasian male who sexually copulated with a black slave woman who in turn bore children. Whether the white male was a slave owner or not has little relevance to the surname not being an African derived name, but one that is more likely British in origin. In the 1800's it was common for women to have many children; 10, 13, or more. Each male child represented another branch of African American's whose original surname ancestor from Europe was Holeman/Holman. Bottom line is that there are lines of Caucasian and African American Holeman's/Holman's. It is easier for Caucasian's to trace their heritage than it is for African American's who come from the same distant ancestry at least by one white male.