Word: mulattos
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...have seen a Negro woman sold upon the block at auction. I was walking. The woman on the block overtopped the crowd. I felt faint, seasick...The woman was a bright mulatto, with a pleasant face. She was magnificently gotten up in silks and satins. She seemed delighted with it all; sometimes ogling the bidders, sometimes looking quite coy and modest; but her mouth never relaxed from its expanded grin of excitement. I dare say the poor thing knew who would buy her. My very soul sickened. It was too dreadful. I tried to reason. 'You know how women sell...
...Germany's Werner Egk, 73, whose music tends to be grandiose and wildly varied. Engagement is a kind of Caribbean Aida set in what is now Haiti during the black natives' overthrow of the French colonists at the turn of the 19th century. The heroine is the mulatto Jeanne, who falls in love with the French officer Christoph, though her revolutionist mother Bobokan is plotting his death. At the end, Jeanne is killed by Christoph, who mistakes her attempt to help him for treachery...
...staying here, but unless confidence continues, it will flee." In the central plateau city of Nova Lisboa, an insurance executive told Griggs: "I am Angolan, born here. My skin is white, but I am not Portuguese in my heart. There are good people in this country, many of them mulatto or black. If they get control here after independence, all will be well. But if the wild ones get in and turn the masses against the rest of us, then I will have...
...open to serious question, both on its facts, which it would presumably take further research to judge conclusively, and on their interpretation. For example, Fogel and Engerman put some stress on the 1850 census's finding that after 230 years of slavery only 7.7 per cent of slaves were mulatto. Such a finding doesn't appear to justify Abolitionist claims that the pre-war South was one big brothel. But neither does it attempt to measure whatever lesser forms of sexual exploitation of slaves occurred. Or, as Fogel and Engerman themselves put it, "while the cliometricians have been able...
...novel, Schwarz-Bart asks the 36 men to move over and make room for a woman. Her name is Solitude, a green-eyed mulatto who was conceived at sea during the pariade, the official rape fest common aboard 18th century slave ships when sailors were let loose in the cargo hold...