How To Use Mulatto In A Sentence
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The definition of the term mulatto, as understood in this state, seems to be vague, signifying generally a person of mixed white or European and Negro parentage, in whatever proportions the blood of the two races may be mingled in the individual.
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays
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For example, she quickly transforms the lackluster Mulatto Boys Boarding School into a prosperous plantation serving also as a model institution, a battered wives refuge, and a night-time bordello for rich visitors.
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Until well into the second quarter of the nineteenth century it was the usual thing in North Carolina to speak of a free negro as a "free person of color." had moved into the province, henceforth all free negroes, mulattoes, and persons of mixed blood to the third generation, male or female, of twenty years of age or more, should pay the same levies as other taxables. 5
Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina
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Aw, what 're you giffin us!" jeered a dusky young mulatto, clad in a ragged striped sweater, recently discharged as a stable-boy.
Bred In The Bone 1908
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Meanwhile those marvellous beings the 'mammies' call 'the city' 'Sillyown,' and the pretty, naughty mulatto lady married to the Missing Link termed it 'Sa Leone.'
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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This was the master of a sailors' boarding-house, a huge mulatto with a heavy fist, who gave the stranded mariner food and shelter till he found him a berth.
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Black and mulatto women, on the other hand, were masculinized in paintings which portrayed black women dominating Spanish and mestizo men and treating their children in neglectful and decidedly unmotherly ways.
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The ventripotent mulatto, the great cater, worker, earner and waster, the man of much and witty laughter, the man of the great heart and alas! of the doubtful honesty, is a figure not yet clearly set before the world; he still awaits a sober and yet genial portrait; but with whatever art that may be touched, and whatever indulgence, it will not be the portrait of a precision.
Memories and Portraits
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A quadroon is the child of a mestize mother and a white father, as a mestize is the child of a mulatto mother and a white father.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
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Heck, in Louisiana there was a whole vocabulary for the different "degrees" of blackness: octaroon, mulatto, etc.
Obama Supporter Jesse Jackson, Jr: Black Super-Delegates Who Back Hillary Could Face Primary Challenge
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As for Carrera, he is sometimes called a mulatto and sometimes a zambo, that is, half-Negro, half-Indian.
World’s Great Men of Color
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The fact that all children born of slave _mothers_, whether their fathers are whites or free colored persons, are included in the census with the slaves, and further that all children born of white mothers, whose fathers are mulattos or blacks, are also included in the census with colored persons and almost invariably with _slaves_, shows that it is impossible to ascertain with any accuracy, _what is the actual increase of the slaves alone.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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The Oscar nomination for the character of Pinky went to Jeanne Crain, and Horne's studio pal Ava Gardner got the part of the mulatto Julie.
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I was a cultural mulatto, born and raised without the benefits of Watts, chop shops, Motown street corners, or deep down Smithville fishing holes and chinaberry trees… I was too black to be white, too white to be black.
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But the mulattoes had one distinct advantage.
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Another mulatto trapper to achieve distinction among the Crows, at least in his own telling, was James P. Beckwourth.
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The ` ` leopard-boy of Africa, '' so extensively advertised by dime museums over the country, was a well-defined case of leukoderma in a young mulatto, a fitting parallel for the case of ichthyosis styled the ` ` alligator-boy. ''
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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As for Carrera, he is sometimes called a mulatto and sometimes a zambo, that is, half-Negro, half-Indian.
World’s Great Men of Color
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On page one of the Thursday, August 19, 2010 paper, for example, there is an ad placed by a M.s S.M. Chabert offering a $16 reward for the return of a runaway mulatto slave called Juliana, who was said to be harboring at the Springs.
Caribbean Net News Daily Headlines
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Carteret's wife Olivia, for her part, is determined to repudiate the legal and moral claims of her mulatto half-sister - Janet Miller - on their father's estate.
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* "Many of these gentlemen-managers, as well as the overseers under them, contribute, in a great degree, to stock the plantation with mulatto and mestee slaves.
Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776
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The _restaurateur_, usually a zambo or a mulatto, prides himself in the superiority of his _picantes_ and his _clicha_.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
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This definition is perhaps restricted somewhat by another provision, by which "all Negroes, mestizoes, and their descendants, having one-eighth of Negro or mulatto blood in their veins, shall be known in this State as persons of color.
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays
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I knew a man from the north who, though married to a respectable southern woman, kept two of these mulatto girls in an upper room at his store; his wife told some of her friends that he had not lodged at home for two weeks together, I have seen these two _kept misses_, as they are there called, at his store; he was afterwards stabbed in an attempt to arrest a runaway slave, and died in about ten days.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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Second, That all the human races, notwithstanding their form and color, appear capable of freely intermarrying, and forming crossed races of every combination, such as the millions of mulattoes and mestizoes sprung in the New World from the mixture of Europeans, Africans, and native Americans; this again points to a common ancestry of all the races of man.
Outline of Universal History
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` The term mulatto, '" he read, "` is not invariably applicable to every admixture of African blood with the European, nor is one having all the features of a white to be ranked with the degraded class designated by the laws of this State as persons of color, because of some remote taint of the negro race.
The House Behind the Cedars
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The offspring of a white man and black woman is a mulatto; the mulatto, and black produce a sambo; from the mulatto and white comes the quadroon; from the quadroon and white the mustee; the child of a mustee by a white man is called a mustee - fino; and the children of a musteefinio are free by law, and rank as white persons to all intents and purposes.
Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies
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The Mississippi civil rights law, passed in 1865, contained the standard language: “All freedmen, free Negroes and mulattoes, who do now and have heretofore lived and cohabited together as husband and wife shall be taken and held in law as legally married.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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I went to dictionary.com to find a good definition for the word mulatto and found this: 1 A person having one white and one Black parent.
Archive 2005-12-01
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As he is a mulatto person's identity, their lives are plagued by racism.
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Even his own child, by a black woman or a mulatto, when the child is called a quadroon, and is very often as white as any English child, is frequently
Slave life in Virginia and Kentucky, or, Fifty years of slavery in the Southern States of America,
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For example, censuses from 1850 through 1890 and again in 1910 and 1920 included one or more black racial subcategories, such as black, mulatto, quadroon, and octoroon.
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West Indies, and they have as many quarterings as a German prince, in his coat of arms; a quadroon looks down upon a mulatto, while a mulatto looks down upon a sambo, that is, half mulatto half negro, while a sambo in his turn looks down upon a nigger.
Peter Simple
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Portrayed as having light skin, long hair and a shapely body, the Jezebel was sometimes referred to as a mulatto or half-breed.
Don’t Bring Home a White Boy
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The Brazilian lower class intermarries freely with the black people; the Brazilian middle class intermarries with mulattoes and Quadroons.
The Negro
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When Ellen was reading stories of old New Orleans, the concept of ‘mulattos’ and ‘octoroons’ prompted her to curious questions.
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The child of a white man by a mulatto woman was called a quarteroon, -- the second degree; from a white father and a quarteroon mother was born the male tierceroon, -- the third degree; the union of a white man with a female tierceroon produced the metif, -- the fourth degree of color.
Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography
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You give five milreis, me give monk," said the old mulatto.
Around the World in Ten Days
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Especially strong is his exploration of the theme of miscegenation in Star Trek; he argues that Spock and other biracial characters are latter-day versions of the tragic mulatto stereotype.
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In the census of 1850, the term mulatto appears for the first time due primarily to inter-marriage between Irish and African Americans.
Terrance Heath: Sotomayor and the Vulcan Standard, Pt. 2
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There are seven supposed to be so. 1st, the Gachupinos, or Spaniards born in Europe; 2nd, the Creoles, that is, whites of European family born in America; 3rd, the Mestizos; 4th, the Mulattoes, descendants of whites and negroes, of whom there are few;
Life in Mexico
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'The term mulatto,'" he read, "'is not invariably applicable to every admixture of African blood with the European, nor is one having all the features of a white to be ranked with the degraded class designated by the laws of this State as persons of color, because of some remote taint of the negro race.
The House Behind the Cedars
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ProLifeBlogs
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The chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw hat, and moccasins of raw-hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or _machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains.
Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts
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Strictly speaking, the child of one black and one white parent is a mulatto; the child of a mulatto and a white is a quadroon (one quarter black); the child of a quadroon and a white is a mustee (one eighth black).
Flash For Freedom
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Another section of the same act declares, "that it shall not be lawful for any number of slaves, free negroes, mulattoes, or mestizoes, even in company with white persons, to meet together and assemble for the purpose of mental instruction or religious worship before the rising of the sun or after the going down of the same.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
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The chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw-hat and moccasins of raw hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or _machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
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La Briere on horseback, preceded by an outrider in full dress, and followed by six servants, — among whom were the Negroes and the mulatto, — and the britzka of the colonel for the two waiting-women and the luggage.
Modeste Mignon
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Why is that loppy eared mulatto such an angry racist?
Think Progress » Tea Party sign threatens gun violence if health care passes.
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In Louisiana or the West Indies she would have been called a quadroon, or more loosely, a creole; in North Carolina, where fine distinctions were not the rule in matters of color, she was sufficiently differentiated when described as a bright mulatto.
The House Behind the Cedars
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Negro blood certainly appears in strong strain among the Semites, and the obvious mulatto groups in Africa, arising from ancient and modern mingling of Semite and Negro, has given rise to the term "Hamite," under cover of which millions of Negroids have been characteristically transferred to the "white" race by some eager scientists.
The Negro
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In challenging the myths of mulatto fiction by precursory white writers, in particular, Fauset reveals the fundamentally political nature of her novels.
