About the same time Frances Wright was endeavoring to establish an institution on the same order to improve the free blacks and mulattoes in West Tennessee.
In 1696, an agreement was reached exempting the Mulattoes and Creoles, leaving only the free black subject to the tax.
I decide that those Mulattoes born in vice should not receive the exemption, and that for the free Negro, the master could give him freedom but could not give him the exemption that attaches to the whites originally from France.
Patoulet, Intendent, rendered a decision in 1683 and said: "The Mulattoes and free Negroes claimed to be exempt from the capitation tax: I have made them pay without difficulty.
There are hundreds of thousands of mulattoes in the United States.
In 1778 that legislature had a committee report in favor of raising a regiment of mulattoes and Negroes.
He sent to the coal yards of his competitors mulattoes who could pass for white, using them to fill his current orders from his foes' supplies that he might save his own coal for the convenient day.
Those Mulattoes who were also designated as Creoles claimed the same exemption and resisted paying the tax.
The next year, the Mulattoes refused to pay, and the successor of Minister Patoulet, M.
Charleston swarms with blacks, mulattoes and mestizos; their number greatly exceeds that of the whites, but they are kept under strict order and discipline, and the police has a watchful eye upon them.
In Virginia where the prohibition did not then extend to freedmen, there was enacted in 1831 a law providing that any meeting of free Negroes or mulattoes for teaching them reading or writing should be considered an unlawful assembly.
She advertised in the "Genius of Universal Emancipation" an establishment to educate freed blacks and mulattoes in West Tennessee.
There were tall windows thrown wide to make the blaze of gas bearable, and two tall mulattoes in the middle distance bringing in and bearing out viands too sumptuous for any but a French nomenclature.
The mulattoesat once flew to arms, and the struggle between them and the whites went on with increased carnage and cruelty.
The inhabitants of Port au Prince and Rigaud agreed upon a truce, and the whites admitted that the slaughter of certain mulattoeshad been "infamous," and agreed that the civil rights of the mulattoes should be allowed them.
The mulattoes felt themselves superior to the blacks, and the rightful successors to the whites in the honors and government of the island.
These are all sales of Negros during the French regime; there are two instances of sales of Mulattoes in this period, but there are five of the sale of Indian slaves, Panis (fem.
It would appear that the offenders were those who were entitled to the mulattoes only as servants, but used the power of intimidation or deceit, which could be easily practiced in the case of minor bastards born in their service.
As the mulattoes were looked upon as the result of an "abominable mixture" of the races and as representing a troublesome element in society, local laws and colonial statutes were gradually enacted to check and control them.
It is sharpest in the mulattoes and “near whites”—those whose ancestors were longest in slavery have the worst marks of it in them.
Are mulattoes increasing or decreasing in numbers?
How, then, is it that mulattoes and near Whites are on the increase?
When two mulattoes marry, the children are generally darker than the parents, and often real Negro types.
It followed, therefore, that little was done beyond a demand for submission, the mulattoes being allowed to disperse on promising to keep the peace.
Accordingly he drew up a memorial to the committee of his section, claiming for the mulattoes the full benefit of the national declaration of rights.
These consisted of civil disabilities which kept mulattoes in the background, and prevented their taking what they believed to be their proper positions in society.
Hearing of this, the mulattoes began to assemble and take up arms, and the Governor hardly dared to take action pending the result of his application.
By thus protecting the mulattoestheir good-will was gained, and they volunteered to go out against the rebels.
The mulattoeswere roused to fury, and the whites equally exasperated.
Ohio legislators may deny that negroes and mulattoes are citizens, or people; but they are estopped by the very words of the statute just quoted, from denying that they are "persons.
In fact one dozen free negroes ormulattoes never belonged to our society in any part of the world, from its first organization to this day (1839).
In a late number of the Star, published in Independence by the leaders of the sect, there is an article inviting free negroes and mulattoes from other states to become Mormons, and remove and settle among us.
It will be observed that the mob in their manifesto charge that the Saints in the first article in question, "Invite free negroes and mulattoes from other states to become 'Mormons,' and remove and settle among us.
Do not the laws of Missouri provide abundantly for the removal from the state of all free negroes andmulattoes (except certain privileged ones)?
In Jamaica, at least, the blacks and mulattoeswould resist.
The blacks disliked the mulattoes; the mulattoes despised the blacks, and would not intermarry with them.
The door was open, and I went in and found a decent-looking clergyman preparing a flock of seven or eight blacks and mulattoes for the Communion.
Mulattoes were mongrels, not creatures of God at all, but creatures of human wickedness.
If it prospered commercially the prosperity would be of French and Spaniards, mulattoes and blacks, but scarcely, if at all, of my own countrymen.
The plan of the committee was to get instructions from the House to bring in a bill making it necessary for every master of a vessel to have a certificate of the number and situation of any negroes or mulattoes he may have on board.
Our unfortunate negroes and mulattoes are exposed by their color to much insult.
Negroes and mulattoes of all shades are among the spectators of the pavement; but with the exception of a few coloured musicians, only white people are admitted within the building.
Whence came the hundreds of thousands of mulattoes in slavery days?
Nor is it the mulattoes only who show this disposition to get on in the world; the pure Negroes sometimes are the most industrious and sensible of their race.
Of course the child of a mulatto will be normally light, and of the two million mulattoes now in the country, very likely three fourths are the children of mulattoes.
The census authorities of 1900 commit themselves only to the generalization that the mulattoes are most numerous in proportion to the number of Whites in any given community.
People assert that mulattoes are more susceptible to disease, so that they are dying out; and some authorities say that there are no mulatto children after the third or fourth generation.
On the other hand, and just as powerful, is the absolute determination of the Whites never to admit the mulattoes within their own circle.
The number of mulattoes is less important than their character and general relation to the negro problem.
Of course, the greater number of mulattoes in the United States are the children of mulattoes, and to what extent the proportion is kept up by further accessions from the white race is absolutely impossible to determine.
Finally, after 1777, mulattoeswere forbidden to come to France.
Berber mulattoes had been kings in early days, but they were soon replaced by black men.
The educated mulattoesespecially objected to submission to the savage African mores.
The revolt once started, blacks andmulattoes murdered whites without mercy and the whites retaliated.
By 1680 there were so many slaves and mulattoes that Louis XIV issued his celebrated Code Noir, which was notable in compelling bachelor masters, fathers of slave children, to marry their concubines.
The Semitic mulattoes from the east came from the highlands bordering the Red Sea and Asia.
In Southwest Africa, Hottentot mulattoes crossing from the Cape caused widespread change.
The Brazilian lower class intermarries freely with the black people; the Brazilian middle class intermarries with mulattoes and Quadroons.
Thus civilization waxed and waned in East Africa among prehistoric Negroes, Arab and Persian mulattoes on the coast, in the Zend or Zeng empire of Bantu Negroes, and later in the Bantu rule of the Monomotapa.
The free mulattoes and negroes, who carry the cacao on board the ships, are a class of men remarkable for muscular strength.
Missouri, in 1847, passed an act saying that "No person shall keep or teach any school for the instruction of Negroes or mulattoes in reading or writing in this state.
Virginia, in 1819, forbade "all meetings or assemblages of slaves or free Negroes or mulattoes mixing and associating with such slaves, .
In the town of Mexico, there are Europeans, Indians from north and south America, negroes from Africa, and mulattoes of every kind, insomuch that the people exhibit every kind of shade between black and white.
In some places both to the north and south of the river we find a species of men called Foulies, who seem to form a shade between the Moors and Negroes, and whom, it is possible, are Mulattoes produced by a coalition of the two nations.
The free descendants of mulattoes who were enfranchised by French masters in Louisiana, and who form a respectable and flourishing class in that State, now stand beneath the American flag at the call of General Butler.
The free mulattoes interpreted the liberal clauses of the Code into an extension of the rights of citizenship to them, as the natural inference from their freed condition.
The mulattoeshave that revengeful disposition, versatility of conduct and voluble tongue, which they possess in all other quarters of the world.
The extent of the city is very great, and the population consists of Spaniards, mulattoes and mestizoes; the native Indians inhabit the suburbs and villages adjacent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mulattoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
