Mulattoes

The worst of them are what they call mulattoes; they are a whity-brown sort of chaps, neither one thing nor the other, and a nice cut-throat lot they are. ❋ Unknown (1867)

Slide 9: Anti-Miscegenation Laws • Jamestown: "mulattoes" - "spurious issue" and "abominable mixture" • First anti-miscegenation laws in VA and MD in 1660s • First the laws criminalized marriages b / t whites and black indentured servants and slaves • then in ❋ Unknown (2008)

I have previously observed that the mixed race is the true bond of union between the Europeans and the Indians; just so, the mulattoes are the true means of transition between the white and the Negro; so that wherever mulattoes abound, the intermixture of the two races is not impossible. ❋ Marian (2007)

For example, in his chapter on leading men of the Negro race, in which he specifies whether they are blacks or mulattoes, he has classified as mulattoes a large number of Negroes who have practically no evidences of white blood and are commonly referred to throughout the country as the blacks of the Negro race. ❋ Various (N/A)

If desirable ones are set aside to produce mulattoes, it would be a great loss to the nation; while if the mulattoes are the offspring of eugenically undesirable white fathers, then the product is not likely to be anything America wants. ❋ Paul Popenoe (1933)

European people and negroes, and called mulattoes: others of Indians and white people, and termed mesticos: but others come of negroes and ❋ George Alfred Williams (1903)

There is a very observable tendency among what are called the mulattoes to withdraw themselves from the dark-skinned negroes and set up for themselves a distinct social class. ❋ Wesley John (1897)

Having called the mulattoes together into the church, he ascended the pulpit and laid bare their bosoms, foretelling his own success and the ruin of their cause. ❋ Unknown (1863)

I have previously observed that the mixed race is the true bond of union between the Europeans and the Indians; just so the mulattoes are the true means of transition between the white and the negro; so that wherever mulattoes abound, the intermixture of the two races is not impossible. ❋ Unknown (1838)

This explained what the skipper meant, on first telling him about the island, when he said the inhabitants were "mulattoes"; although Fritz thought them only of a brunette tinge, for they were of much lighter hue than many Spaniards and Italians whom he had met on the Continent. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

After the year 1835 these Indians, who murmured greatly at the injustice done them in being classed as "mulattoes" or "free persons of color," became suspicious of white men, and at first we found difficulty in eliciting any facts relating to their past history. ❋ O. M. McPherson (1915)

They were all mulattoes, -- all people of mixed blood were called "mulattoes" in North Carolina. ❋ Unknown (1900)

Thus ends the history of Hobbs on Edloe's plantation, with the exception of leaving what are termed "mulattoes" in Virginia. ❋ Unknown (1893)

The various mixed races of men, such as mulattoes and half-breeds, are also mongrels. ❋ Unknown (1877)