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Another mulatto trapper to achieve distinction among the Crows, at least in his own telling, was James P. Beckwourth.
African German mulatto children were marginalized in German society, isolated socially and economically, and not allowed to attend university.
The dominant perception among most Dominicans is that their mulatto skin tones distinguish them from darker-skinned Dominicans and Haitians.
They took an old mulatto, worth a million, who had simply asked for his rights under that decree, and hung him.
In challenging the myths of mulatto fiction by precursory white writers, in particular, Fauset reveals the fundamentally political nature of her novels.
The mulatto heard them with a welcome which no dread of other classes could quell.
But Miguel, a beautiful mulatto three months old, is the irrefutable proof that life project he has designed with Angie is a wise move.
No longer were African American female actors relegated to the pervasive roles of the mammy, tragic mulatto and picaninny.
Croix, he was the mulatto son of one of the leading white families in the Danish West Indies.
They are mostly mulatto or black, so other Hispanic groups who on census forms usually describe themselves as white do not accept them as their own.
Because I am mulatto, mixed black and white, I know that America is a country malleable as gold that can be made our own, if words strike it hard enough.
Efforts to track mixing between groups led to a proliferation of categories, such as mulatto and octoroon.
What's more, the uprising was efficiently quelled by mulatto troops by the day after its instigation.
Interracial marriage was a rarity, and was almost always a case of a union between a white man and a mulatto woman.
She threw back her head and laughed and tugged at two young mulatto children with blondish hair.
Some of the earliest mulatto communities in the country were subsequently formed through unions between colonists, their slaves, and various Khoikhoi tribes.
The supermodelesque mulatto woman licked her lips and smiled invitingly.
And she rolls us like foam from her flanks, the gay mulatto.
The English colonies insisted on a binary system, in which mulatto and black slaves were treated equally under the law, and discriminated against equally if free.
Depreciative terms exist in historical terms such as mulatto, African slave, primitive culture, animist, African jungle, alongside scores of other terms.
Examples from Classical Literature
I was only a dark mulatto color now, whereas two days previous I was as black as cloe.
Strickland had downed the mulatto twice, and the mulatto, sober, was a man to be reckoned with.
With regard to assistance from the troops, neither mulatto nor zambo wished for any.
The mulatto coachman, with a third horse, was at the door, ready to accompany us.
At this, he gives Harkness a shove which sends him staggering into the arms of the mulatto.
Coming to Paramaribo, he had married a mulatto wife, and through her, become a slave-holder.
By the same instrument the testatrix bequeathed to her grand-daughter a mulatto slave John Patten two and a half years old.
The voice of the mulatto is at once sweet, vibrant and melancholy.
To make Iola Leroy acceptable to a white audience, the black heroine would have to be physically almost white, a mulatto, quadroon, or octoroon.
A light-colored mulatto boy, in dress coat and bearing a diminutive silver tray for the reception of cards, admitted them.
She had been married to a bright and talented young mulatto man, who was a slave on a neighboring estate, and bore the name of George Harris.
When a man is statued in bronze, does he always turn out a mulatto?
He was sure they were the mulatto and zambo, the hunters of the mission.
They were all blacks, except the captain, who was a mulatto.
The boy was a handsome, bright-eyed mulatto, of just Henrique's size, and his curling hair hung round a high, bold forehead.
He was a heavy, bulky mulatto, on short legs, and he came tapping the floor in front of him with his gold-headed cane.
The mulatto woman was a member of the Methodist church, and had an unenlightened but very sincere spirit of piety.
Rarely will a mulatto girl marry a black man, and vice versa.
A mulatto servant-man came into the room where Flora and I were.
In close connection with the preceding is the question of the mulatto.
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Steve the mulatto was stretched upon the floor in a deep sleep.
From his mother he had received only a slight mulatto tinge, amply compensated by its accompanying rich, dark eye.
This, the rude skin sheiling which shelters the mestizo and mulatto.
She was a mulatto woman, and I noticed that her face was haggard, with great circles under the eyes, while the eyes themselves were wide with some haunting fear.
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.
The public and shameless sale of beautiful mulatto and quadroon girls has acquired a notoriety, from the incidents following the capture of the Pearl.
