Word: mulattos
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...Oliveira Salazar's political police, the P.I.D.E., reached into every corner of the province. Some 150 Angolans were arrested and thrown in jail as politically suspect. Most conspicuous prisoner was the Roman Catholic vicar general of Angola, Msgr. Manuel Mendes das Neves, 70, a distinguished mulatto churchman whose principal crime was his outspoken sermons advocating African rights. All foreign newsmen are kept under surveillance, their phone calls tapped, their cables censored. Even foreign consulates are watched. Said one diplomat: "There is not a single local employee on my payroll who I'm sure does not work...
...Named for the mulatto who was the first man to be killed by British troops in the Boston Massacre, March...
...different kind of impact on Congo affairs was being made by Madame Andrée Blouin, a handsome, 41-year-old mulatto of leftist inclinations, whose steel will and quick energy make her an invaluable political aide as well as round-the-clock companion to Lumumba's Deputy Premier, bespectacled Antoine Gizenga...
Some followers of the two men reportedly flocked into the towns, staking claims to white settlers' homes-and to their wives. Kasavubu's party newspaper darkly suggested that "in former days, African women had to slave to bring up the white man's mulatto children, but in the future, white women will have to rear the mulatto offspring of the black man." As if all this were not enough, the Congo's finances were chaotic; $230 million in capital escaped the country before exchange controls were imposed, leaving scarcely enough in currency reserves to back...
...Negroes were officially classified as either black, mulatto, quadroon or octoroon...