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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The condition of being a mulatto.

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Examples

  • Accepting the race as it came to them from slavery, during which mulattoism was forced upon it, the Negroes have gone on developing race pride and visiting their supreme disfavor upon all who signify inability to find thorough contentment within the race.

    The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist Robert E. [Illustrator] Bell 1902

  • Now, while we should grant to every human being all the rights we claim for ourselves, and bear in mind the cases of individual excellence of colored people, we must, I think, admit that mulattoism is hybridism, and that it is unnatural and undesirable.

    Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

  • Others persist that mulattoism is not and cannot be persistent beyond four generations.

    Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

  • American States is invariably attended with a corresponding diminution of virility, from the first generation of mulattoism to the fourth, when it becomes "as absolutely sterile as muleism:" all of which facts demonstrate, that the Utopian dreams of misguided and perverse

    Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis, T. W. MacMahon 1862

  • Others persist that mulattoism is not and cannot be persistent beyond four generations.

    Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840

  • Now, while we should grant to every human being all the rights we claim for ourselves, and bear in mind the cases of individual excellence of colored people, we must, I think, admit that mulattoism is hybridism, and that it is unnatural and undesirable.

    Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840

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