- Joined
- May 12, 2010
- Location
- Now Florida but always a Kentuckian
mulatto. a person with one white parent and one black; in the old South, such a person was usually the child of a white slave owner and one of his female slaves. A common name for a mulatto was a Yellow. The term mulatto was first applied in the late sixteenth century to the offspring of white Europeans and blacks, while a female was called a "mulatta".
From: "The Language of the Civil War" John D. Wright, page 199.
From: "The Language of the Civil War" John D. Wright, page 199.