Examples of mulatto in the following topics:
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- 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.
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- By 1860, just over 10 percent of the slave population
was mulatto.
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- 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.
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- In 1804, the black and mulatto revolutionaries succeeded in gaining freedom, declaring the colony the independent black nation of Haiti.
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- 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.
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- Efforts to track mixing between groups led to a proliferation of categories (such as "mulatto" and "octoroon") and so-called "blood quantum" distinctions, which refers to the degree of ancestry for an individual of a specific racial or ethnic group (e.g., saying someone is "1/4 Omaha tribe").
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- The result after
several generations was a large number of mixed race, or mulatto, slaves.