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Mulatto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mulatto denotes a person with one white parent and one black parent or a person who has both black ancestry and white ancestry. The term may be perceived as pejorative in some cultures and situations...
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MR. NEHEMIAH CAULKINS, of Waterford, New London Co., Connecticut, has furnished the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, ... since which, I have been at his hut, and seen four or five mulatto children. He has been appointed a justice of the peace, and his place as overseer was afterwards occupied by a...
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In this passage from his account of the Underground Railroad, William Still describes the circumstances of a mulatto woman who escaped slavery with the Railroad's help. Many white men considered mulatto women to be extremely desirable.
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Although there were black, mulatto and American-born slave owners in some colonies in the Americas, and many whites did not own slaves, chattel slavery was fundamentally different in the Americas from other parts of the world because of the racial dimension.
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Mulatto slavery gaining strength throughout the South in the 1850’s, but publicly white people seemed unconcerned about white blood mixing with black and being held in slavery. On the other hand, they went into a rage against white blood mixed with black and being free.
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Slavery Comes to America ... In 1662 the Virginia Assembly passed a law that children should be held, bond or free, " according to the condition of the mother." This was to meet the case of mulatto children, born of black mothers, in the colony.
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