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This mulatto's life was indeed tragic. She was ignorant ... In the movie Show Boat (1936), a beautiful young entertainer, Julie, discovers that she has "Negro blood." Existing laws held that "one drop of Negro blood makes you a Negro." Her husband (and the movie's writers and producer) take this "one drop rule" literally.
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(use of the term Mulatto here to describe an Indian half-blood) ... 1749….North Carolina tithable law is amended to include “all White Persons intermarrying with any Negro, mulatto, or mustee, or other Person of Mixt Blood.”...
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Limpieza de sangre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Limpieza de sangre (in Spanish), Limpeza de sangue (in Portuguese), both meaning "cleanliness of blood" played an important role in modern Iberian history. It referred to those who were consi...
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The Spanish and Portuguese colonies had worked their glossary of terms into their laws in order to distinguish how each classification would be considered before the law. The only reason English laws ever included the term mulatto was to establish that racially mixed blood did not exempt a person from slavery.
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Delmarva and Southern New Jersey Native American Remnant group history and genealogy ... Florida's official race laws stipulated that any mixed-blood person, whether of white/Negro, white/Indian, Indian/Negro, white/Hispanic, or whatever, were to be legally and socially classified as 'mulatto'.
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Be particularly careful to distinguish between blacks, mulattos, quadroons, and octoroons. The word "black" should be used to describe those persons who have three-fourths or more black blood; "mulatto," those persons who have from three-eighths to five-eighths black blood;
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The notion of “blood quantum” was created to track racial ancestry and define legal rights. In 1705 the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted a series of laws that denied certain civil liberties to any Negro, Mulatto, or American Indian. ... Over time, such blood quantum laws concerning race-mixing became not only widespread,
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The raping and sexual coercion of black women by white men prompted governments to enact antimiscegenation laws throughout the southern United States. These laws were ... Reuter, Edward B. 1918. The Mulatto in the United States: Including a Study of the Role of Mixed-blood Races throughout the World. Boston: Badger.
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African Americans as a Minority-- Racial Purity Laws ... 1860 1/4 Every person who has one-fourth or more of Negro blood shall be deemed a mulatto, and the word Negro in any section shall be construed to mean mulatto as well as Negro.
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