Word: mulattos
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Leger's childhood supplied plenty of background for an elegist of dying civilizations. His family was old French-Colonial stock (his enemies like to call Leger a mulatto), which had lived for two centuries in the West Indies. Alexis was born (1887) on the family's coral island of Saint-Leger les Feuilles, near Guadeloupe. Once a cyclone picked up little Alexis and left him in a treetop. Once his Hindu nurse, a secret priestess of Siva, took him to a Siva temple, painted him black and stood him in a niche above the worshipers. Then she made...
...country where few are well-educated, where the population is 95% Negro and mulatto, the new suffrage was a broad, democratic gesture by the Colonial Office in London; and the constitution itself was important as an expression of a new and more enlightened British colonial pol icy. Some English on the island thought last week that the constitution might eliminate "experienced legislators" and produce a "working-class landslide." But Governor Richards seemed unworried about the possibility. Norman Manley, who works as hard for unity as he works for freedom, hopefully declared his confidence "in the good sense of the public...
...Cape Town last week rattled a troop train bound for Sonderwater Camp, 1,100 miles away. It was packed tight with mulatto soldiers and most of them were full of high spirits soaked up in Cape Town's cheap Jim Crow bars...
...husband, another, spends most of his time at the mill, earnestly reads Bunyan's Holy War. Sapphira herself manages the household from her wheel chair (she has dropsy), yearns for the good life in Winchester. Mainly the story is of her more & more elaborate persecution of the young mulatto Nancy, whom she wrongly suspects of bedding with her husband. At her lowest she invites her rakehell nephew Martin for a visit, assigns him Nancy as his personal servant. Colbert and his daughter help Nancy escape, unscathed, into Canada. In an old-fashioned epilogue Willa Cather, aged five, sees Nancy...
...with nympholepsy, shows off her breasts. Most of them know she is a slut, some of them doubt she was ever raped; but this is a nigger hunt. Later they break into Negro cabins, strip a Negro couple, whip the husband, turpentine his wife's belly, rape a mulatto girl. Before they get Sonny they drag Sam behind a car. After they have killed Sonny the girl confesses his innocence. They stone her to death...