THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
THE MONROE DOCTRINE
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Mulattoes
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Mestizos
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Creoles
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Affranchis
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Detailed explanation-1: -Etymology. Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin mūlus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules.
Detailed explanation-2: -usually offensive : the first-generation offspring of a Black person and a white person. usually offensive : a person of mixed white and Black ancestry.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mulatto: Historically this term is meant to describe someone of mixed African and European ancestry.
Detailed explanation-4: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free."