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mulatto::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | mixed-blood |
Examples of mulatto
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For 14 years he lived in Chillicothe, the 1850 Census listing him as mulatto.
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Many established small businesses and joined the ranks of the mulatto class.
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Alden played the role of a mulatto girl in love with a northern politician.
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Boyer went to Jacmel, where he joined forces with the mulatto leader, General Rigaud.
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All three rulers during the occupation came from the country's small mulatto minority.
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In a census three years later she identified herself as a free mulatto.
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Invariably the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge.
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In other parts of the world, people are like yeah, that's my mulatto friend over there.
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Charles Deslondes, a mulatto slave from Haiti, was one of the leaders of the insurrection.
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- An offspring of a black and a white parent
- A person of mixed African and Caucasian descent; Anyone born to two half-African and half-Caucasian parents; Anyone who is three quarters African and one quarter Caucasian, or one quarter African and three quarters Caucasian
- (mulattoes) In colonial Latin America, Spanish/African who were denied basic political, economic, and social rights due to their mixed heritage.
- Strictly a person of one Caucasian and one Negro parent, but commonly used for any person of mixed heritage.
- (Spanish) A multi-racial person of African descent. In Spanish America, according to the proscribed definition of the casta system, mulattos had one parent of African descent and one of European; in practice, peopled labeled as mulattos could have indigenous and multi-racial parents and/or ...
- A mulatto is legally considered to be an individual with mixed black and white heritage. However, some individuals who were designated mulattos may have a slightly more mixed parentage, perhaps including Native American blood.
- Originally from Spanish mulato meaning hybrid; an offspring of European and African parentage or a descendant of European and African ancestors; also used to refer to a person whose phenotype suggests mixed African and European ancestry.
- The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent. (p. 484)
- The child of one white and one Negro parent. (One half black.)
