Example sentences for: mulatto

How can you use “mulatto” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The revocation of special mulatto rights accelerated the practice of passing for white.

  • Many Hemings descendants were unaware of any African-American ancestry (Hemings was a mulatto) and equally unaware that they were related to a president.

  • The law banned "negroes, mulatto's and Indians intermarrying with English, or other white women, [and] their unlawfull accompanying with one another."

  • Santiago is Cuba’s melting pot, with a friendly population of predominantly mulatto people: descendants of Spanish, French from Haiti, Jamaicans, and huge numbers of African slaves.

  • Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and the mulatto elite dismissed Lewis and lined up behind Bond.


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