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  • The following persons from several of the United States, being people of colour, commonly called Mulattoes, are presumed to come within the intention of the same law, and are accordingly warned and directed to depart out of the Commonwealth before the 10th day of October next.

    History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

  • By then, however, his British superiors were ­having doubts about an irregular force made up of “Negroes, Indians, Mulattoes, Sailor and Rebel Prisoners,” and relieved Rogers of command.

    The Pioneer of Special Ops 2009

  • The most tiring and fearful aspect for most Mulattoes is that they are suspected from either side of being race traitors.

    A Review of Shelby Steele's: A Bound Man 2008

  • In their respective analyses of how Mulattoes see the world, one has to give Steele and Obama a wide berth, and the benefit of all doubt.

    A Review of Shelby Steele's: A Bound Man 2008

  • In it, he likened Obama to a favorite media "figure of postmodern folk culture ..." that needs to be added to the canon of media caricatures immortalized in Donald Bogle's Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks.

    Leonce Gaiter: Obama The Less And Less Magic Negro 2008

  • Mulattoes are by no means numerous in the United States; they have no force peculiar to themselves, and when quarrels originating in differences of color take place, they generally side with the whites, just as the lackeys of the great in Europe assume the contemptuous airs of nobility towards the lower orders.

    Jena as de Tocqueville's "democracy" where Black Americans are a "threat" to Whites Marian 2007

  • On 15 May 1791, at Robespierre's instigation the French National Assembly, established after the Revolution of July 1789, passed a decree granting equality of political status to whites, Mulattoes and freed Africans in its colonies, including San Domingo.

    ANC Today 2007

  • Revolution of July 1789, passed a decree granting equality of political status to whites, Mulattoes and freed Africans in its colonies, including San Domingo.

    ANC Today 2007

  • Why are even many of the so-called positive portrayals (as I suspect those in Double Take were intended to be, given that, as becomes clear in the end, the black jive-talkers actually are the good guys) essentially the same—modern variations on what author Donald Bogle (Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks) identified as Stepin Fetchit-like “coons” and brutal black “bucks”?

    THE ENVY OF The World Ellis Cose 2002

  • Mulattoes and blacks within the group may very well have socialized with one another without living together or marrying in great numbers.

    On Borrowed Ground: Free African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina 1810-61 Jason Poole 1994

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