Word: mulattos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voodoo Aida of sorts, Koanga is set in the ante helium South and tells the story of an African prince (Koanga, also a voodoo priest) sold into slavery on a plantation. He falls in love with a mulatto slave girl, and eventually makes a bold -but tragic-dash for freedom. Koanga's moods and moments range from a tender love scene to a fiery voodoo incantation. Everywhere, Delius' music flows effortlessly in and out, over and under the libretto (based on the novel The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable) with the caressing quality of rhapsody at its best...
...summoned to paint the portrait of Pope Innocent X. The artist was out of practice; he had done no heads for some years. So, to get his hand in, Velásquez decided to make a portrait of his color grinder and studio hand, a husky mulatto slave named Juan de Pareja. Roman cognoscenti greeted it, according to one of Velásquez's contemporaries, "with admiration and astonishment," and from then on this aloof, brooding presence on canvas with the liquid black eyes remained one of the most admired, if least seen, of all Velásquez...
...lesson was not lost on a strapping, green-eyed Brazilian mulatto named Carlos Marighella. A longtime Communist and former member of Brazil's congress, Marighella had no quarrel with Guevara's goal of overthrowing the established order-just with his tactics. Marighella believed that the proper approach was to terrorize Latin America's crowded and vulnerable urban areas. It is easier, he reasoned, to fade into a teeming city than to elude an army patrol in a rural district where the peasants distrust all strangers. Marighella put his ideas into a 55-page work of revolution, Minimanual...
...Trinidad's Governor Thomas Picton applied the torture to a young mulatto girl who had been implicated in a theft. The episode, with a number of other abuses of power, led to a far-reaching scandal and intrigue. Picton's principal opponent was his first commissioner, Colonel William Fullarton, who wanted to create a Trinidad of small multiracial landowners whose basic human rights were assured...