Word: mulatto
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Captain Raib Avers and eight ragged black and mulatto crewmen set out from Grand Cayman Island to hunt turtles in the southwest Caribbean. Their ship is the Lillias Eden, a once proud schooner now yoked to brand-new twin diesel engines in its converted cargo hold. Avers' legendary temper is even blacker than usual. Though it is late in the turtle season, he needs a good catch to pay for the overhaul of his ship. He rashly refuses to worry about Eden's lack of a chronometer, life jackets, fire extinguishers, or a radio that can send...
Dabney's primary target was Brodie, who portrayed Jefferson in Freudian'terms as suffering from a guilt complex stemming from his paternity of mulatto children at Monticello. The trouble with that tidy theory, Dabney argued, is that it only works if Jefferson was indeed the father and he insisted that there is no reliable evidence to support that assertion-and much evidence to the contrary. Dabney enlisted statements from three Jefferson historians to refute the paternity claim. He said that Dumas Malone and Merrill Peterson of the University of Virginia and Julian P. Boyd, editor of the papers...
Serpent's Glance. The most solid evidence, according to Dabney, is that there were mulattoes at Monticello and some were related to Jefferson-but were fathered by Jefferson's father-in-law John Wayles and two nephews. The liaisons of the nephews with two of the Jefferson servants, Sally and Betsey Hemings, thus resulted in children who bore a likeness to Jefferson. While most of the evidence refuting the Jefferson paternity is noted by Brodie the historians complain that she dismissed it in her "obsession" with the mulatto question...
Apparently, different nationalities lived in the same neighborhoods and walked together. As for their color, I had never seen a people of such varying shades of skin color and hair texture. The darker Cubans did not seem to suffer from racial discriminatory acts as they intermigled with their mulatto and lighter-skinned countrymen. We waved at them through the bus windows as some waved back. When we had been in Mexico City, motorists honked their horns impatiently, swore, cursed at pedestrians, and even called us names...
...Army. As a member of the Army, he said he had hijacked a plane and was seeking sanctuary in Cuba. So far he had been a little disappointed in his stay because there were no "black groups." We asked him what he meant. In Cuba, he replied, everyone--black, mulatto and white--intermingled, regardless of color. Furthermore, he continued, the Cubans wanted him to do physical labor and work like everyone else in a socialist society. One of our delegates commented that his disappointment with a Communist country came from his trying to perceive this new society from the values...