505 examples of mulatto in sentences

Many Eastern and Northern people confound the term "Creole" and "Mulatto," believing that the former name is given to the offspring of mixed marriages, which take place in spite of the vigilance of the laws of most of the Southern States.

Many of the mulatto waiters employed in the hotels are strikingly handsome men, and on the whole the sable sons of Pennsylvania struck me as being industrious, well dressed, prosperous, and a trifle haughty in their intercourse with white folks.

" Kit mused while Adam beckoned a mulatto steward, who brought him a glass and some ice.

" Some tables behind the pillars were laid out with wine and fruit, and Adam beckoned a mulatto waiter.

By and by the mulatto fireman shut the furnace door, the puzzling light was cut off, and Kit searched the horizon.

A mulatto from the beach, who wore neat white clothes and an expensive hat, counted the boxes and then gave Adam a receipt.

" "That would be prudent, señor," Adam agreed, and turned to Kit when the mulatto went away.

" II Young Owens got up about nine o'clock next morning, and while making his toilet put some questions to his personal attendant, a rather bright looking young mulatto of about his own age.

But there were negro waiters in the dining-room, and mulatto bell-boys, and Dick had no doubt that Grandison, with the native gregariousness and garrulousness of his race, would foregather and palaver with them sooner or later, and Dick hoped that they would speedily inoculate him with the virus of freedom.

If some Negroes were commanded not to commit adultery, such a prohibition did not extend to the slave women forced to have illicit relations with masters who sold their mulatto offspring as goods and chattels.

A mulatto of Richmond taught John H. Smythe when he was between the ages of five and seven.

He is a handsome fellow, 25 years old, about the color of a mulatto, with a slender athletic figure, graceful manners, a pleasant smile, and a romantic history.

How the poor mulatto shall be disposed of, under this doctrine, between the call which Africa makes for him, on the one hand, and that which some state of Europe sends out for him on the other, is a problem more difficult of solution than that which the contending mothers brought before the matchless wisdom of Solomon.

He built a log hut, and took the woman to live with him; since which, I have been at his hut, and seen four or five mulatto children.

I knew a man from the north who, though married to a respectable southern woman, kept two of these mulatto girls in an upper room at his store; his wife told some of her friends that he had not lodged at home for two weeks together, I have seen these two kept misses, as they are there called, at his store; he was afterwards stabbed in an attempt to arrest a runaway slave, and died in about ten days.

One young mulatto man, with whom I was well acquainted, was killed by his master in his yard with impunity.

A handsome mulatto woman, about 18 or 20 years of age, whose independent spirit could not brook the degradation of slavery, was in the habit of running away: for this offence she had been repeatedly sent by her master and mistress to be whipped by the keeper of the Charleston work-house.

"Detained at the jail, a mulatto named Tom, has a scar on the right cheek and appears to have been burned with powder on the face.

"Absconded, the mulatto boy Tom, his fingers scarred on his right hand, and has a scar on his right cheek" Mr. John W. Walton, Greensboro, Ala. in the "Alabama Beacon", Dec. 13, 1838.

" Mr. John Tart, Sen. in the "Fayetteville [N.C.] Observer", Dec. 26, 1838 "Stolen a mulatto boy, ten years old, he has a scar over his eye which was made by an axe.

"Ranaway, the mulatto wench Maryhas a cut on the left arm, a scar on the shoulder, and two upper teeth missing.

"Ranaway, my mulatto woman Judyshe has had her right arm broke.

"Ranaway, a mulatto man named Joehis fingers on the left hand are partly amputated.

"Ranaway, my mulatto boy Cy, has but one hand, all the fingers of his right hand were burnt off when young.

"Absconded, mulatto slave Alick, has a large scar over one of his cheeks.

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