He remembered his successful appeal to the mulattoes, five years before, to put down an insurrection. |
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The northern suburbs, in contrast, contain much larger proportions of mulattoes, as do many districts of the North Zone. |
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Racial tensions were eased because Toussaint preached reconciliation and believed that blacks, a majority of whom were African born, had to learn from Europeans and Europeanized mulattoes. |
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Due to the racial caste system instituted in colonial Haiti, Haitian mulattoes became the nation's social elite and racially privileged. |
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Today, the Aristide myth continues to be fed by the stark injustices that still divide rich from poor, women from men, and the light-skinned mulattoes from the dark majority. |
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Men such as the mulattoes Manuel Piar in Venezuela and José Padilla in New Granada rose to the rank of general and admiral, respectively, in Bolívar's forces. |
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Numerous leaders throughout Haiti's history have been mulattoes. |
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Mulattoes also had a higher incidence of manumission, most likely because of the likelihood that they were the children of a slave and an owner. |
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