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Where did the mulatto mulatto go?

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    RottenRobert African Astronaut
    1880

    For the 1880 census, enumerators asked residents questions across several categories, including occupation, health, education, and nativity. Listed by column number, the following information was gathered:
    1.Number of dwelling home, in order of visitation by the enumerator
    2.Number of family, in order of visitation by the enumerator
    3.Name
    4.Color

    Enumerators were to mark "W" for White, "B" for Black, "Mu" for Mulatto, "C" for Chinese [a category which included all east Asians], of "I" for American Indian



    Apparently, James Evans brought (not bought!) Mary Hoggard from North Carolina and married her in Missouri where they raised their family. This makes sense, since this part of Missouri would have been “Free.”

    This photo speaks volumes of the kind of dilemma a black mother married to a white man found herself in during the 19th century. This couple were married in Clinton County, Missouri, went by the surname Evans, and would have approximately 3000 descendants today.
    ◾The children are mulatto but 100% passable. The time, right around the Civil War. The choice the children had was really no choice. Quite simply, either they turned their backs on the mother and leave the state or be classified as Negro and endure Jim Crow for the rest of the lives.
    The mother is clearly not thrilled with the photograph. I think she was forced to sit for it by her husband. She appears to be thinking it’s not a very good idea, that the photo could prove an embarrassment to her children. Indeed, it could prove an embarrassment to all her descendants 200 years into the future.
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    UNSUB Tuskegee Airman [my unrivalled skillful mastoid]
    They still have em at Starbucks

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    cupocheer Space Nigga [unwillingly condescend the dp]
    I don't believe the children are mulatto, OP?

    How long have you hern.doing genealogy?

    How did you learn of all the nuances of how the census records were enumerated and recorded?
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    RottenRobert African Astronaut
    Originally posted by cupocheer I don't believe the children are mulatto, OP?

    How long have you hern.doing genealogy?

    How did you learn of all the nuances of how the census records were enumerated and recorded?

    Your opinion is inconsequential like trying to pass a mutt for a purebred.

    The English term "mulatto" is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese mulato. The origin of mulato is uncertain. The term may derive from mula (current Portuguese word, from the Latin mūlus), meaning mule, the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey.
    Mulatto - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto

    What race is mulatto?
    Mulatto (from Spanish mulato, small mule) is a word referring to a person who is born to one Black parent and one Caucasian parent. The term may be considered offensive or rude to some, because of its origin.

    Historically in the context of slave societies of the Americas, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one quarter African and three quarters European ancestry (or in the context of Australia, one quarter aboriginal ancestry). The terms are now archaic.
    Similar classifications were octoroon for one eighth black (Latin root octo-, means "eight") and hexadecaroon for one sixteenth black.
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    Madman African Astronaut
    Benedict Cumberbatch is a time traveler
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    kroz weak whyte, frothy cuck, and former twink
    I dunno, does it really matter? I tell socidety that im mixed but federal papers say im whyte... times have changed folks. wouldn't consider myself a mullato tho
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    kroz weak whyte, frothy cuck, and former twink
    Originally posted by RottenRobert Your opinion is inconsequential like trying to pass a mutt for a purebred.

    The English term "mulatto" is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese mulato. The origin of mulato is uncertain. The term may derive from mula (current Portuguese word, from the Latin mūlus), meaning mule, the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey.
    Mulatto - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto

    What race is mulatto?
    Mulatto (from Spanish mulato, small mule) is a word referring to a person who is born to one Black parent and one Caucasian parent. The term may be considered offensive or rude to some, because of its origin.

    Historically in the context of slave societies of the Americas, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one quarter African and three quarters European ancestry (or in the context of Australia, one quarter aboriginal ancestry). The terms are now archaic.
    Similar classifications were octoroon for one eighth black (Latin root octo-, means "eight") and hexadecaroon for one sixteenth black.

    pretty much this, I'm sure one day most people will be considered mullato taco
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    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    OneMulatto, TwoMulatoes... ThreeMulatoes?
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    kroz weak whyte, frothy cuck, and former twink
    a misquito! I'm a beatle! yeaaaaah!
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    RottenRobert African Astronaut
    Do mulattos crave 40s?
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    UNSUB Tuskegee Airman [my unrivalled skillful mastoid]
    Originally posted by UNSUB They still have em at Starbucks


    They crave cream in their cappuccino
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