mulatto

(noun)

A person of mixed African and Caucasian descent; the term is used in historical contexts, but not in modern culture.

Related Terms

  • chattel

Examples of mulatto in the following topics:

  • Jefferson, Slavery, and Race

    • In 1770, he defended a young mulatto male slave in a freedom suit on the grounds that his mother was white and freeborn.
    • As a widower, his father-in-law John Wayles had taken his mulatto slave Betty Hemings as a concubine and had six children with her during his last 12 years.
  • Women and Slavery

    • By 1860, just over 10 percent of the slave population was mulatto.
  • Skin Color in the South

    • The children of white fathers and slave mothers were mixed-race slaves whose appearance was generally classified as "mulatto," a term that initially meant a person with white and black parents, but grew to encompass any apparently mixed-race person.
  • Early Opposition to Slavery

    • In 1804, the black and mulatto revolutionaries succeeded in gaining freedom, declaring the colony the independent black nation of Haiti.
  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    • In the aftermath of the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion, the Virginia General Assembly passed new legislation making it unlawful to teach slaves, free blacks, or mulattoes to read or write.
  • Treatment of Slaves in the United States

    • The result after several generations was a large number of mixed race, or mulatto, slaves.
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