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- noun Plural form of
mulatto .
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Examples
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The worst of them are what they call mulattoes; they are a whity-brown sort of chaps, neither one thing nor the other, and a nice cut-throat lot they are.
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Slide 9: Anti-Miscegenation Laws • Jamestown: "mulattoes" - "spurious issue" and "abominable mixture" • First anti-miscegenation laws in VA and MD in 1660s • First the laws criminalized marriages b / t whites and black indentured servants and slaves • then in
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Slide 9: Anti-Miscegenation Laws • Jamestown: "mulattoes" - "spurious issue" and "abominable mixture" • First anti-miscegenation laws in VA and MD in 1660s • First the laws criminalized marriages b / t whites and black indentured servants and slaves • then in
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Slide 9: Anti-Miscegenation Laws • Jamestown: "mulattoes" - "spurious issue" and "abominable mixture" • First anti-miscegenation laws in VA and MD in 1660s • First the laws criminalized marriages b / t whites and black indentured servants and slaves • then in
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Slide 9: Anti-Miscegenation Laws • Jamestown: "mulattoes" - "spurious issue" and "abominable mixture" • First anti-miscegenation laws in VA and MD in 1660s • First the laws criminalized marriages b / t whites and black indentured servants and slaves • then in
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I have previously observed that the mixed race is the true bond of union between the Europeans and the Indians; just so, the mulattoes are the true means of transition between the white and the Negro; so that wherever mulattoes abound, the intermixture of the two races is not impossible.
Jena as de Tocqueville's "democracy" where Black Americans are a "threat" to Whites Marian 2007
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For example, in his chapter on leading men of the Negro race, in which he specifies whether they are blacks or mulattoes, he has classified as mulattoes a large number of Negroes who have practically no evidences of white blood and are commonly referred to throughout the country as the blacks of the Negro race.
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If desirable ones are set aside to produce mulattoes, it would be a great loss to the nation; while if the mulattoes are the offspring of eugenically undesirable white fathers, then the product is not likely to be anything America wants.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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European people and negroes, and called mulattoes: others of Indians and white people, and termed mesticos: but others come of negroes and
The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main George Alfred Williams 1903
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There is a very observable tendency among what are called the mulattoes to withdraw themselves from the dark-skinned negroes and set up for themselves a distinct social class.
The Negro and the White Man Wesley John 1897
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