mulattos
- plural of mulatto.
Example Sentences
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Next were the mulattos, persons of mixed European and African ancestry, and enslaved Africans.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Their ideas grow out of a traditional obsession with the legal status of free blacks and mulattos in the decades before the Civil War.
From Salon ● May 4, 2011
Ms. Hills also spoke of the dance’s African-Argentine roots among the local mulattos and immigrants, principally in Rio de la Plata, a Buenos Aires suburb.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2010
Population: Spanish whites 950,000, mulattos 300,000, blacks 50,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Whydah and other coast towns are many mulattos, speaking Portuguese and bearing high-sounding Portuguese names.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
