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I have previously observed that the mixed race is the true bond of union between the Europeans and the Indians; just so the mulattoes are the true means of transition between the white and the negro; so that wherever mulattoes abound, the intermixture of the two races is not impossible.
The captain, however, had the sense to follow his advice, and to give only three rounds of ammunition to each man. When this was done, I had time to look towards the approaching boats. They were filled full of fellows armed to the teeth, and dressed in every variety of costume. Some of them were whites, but many were mulattoes and blacks.
There is another evidence of his wisdom in dealing with his people that is worth repeating. As has been said, when the revolution began Hayti had about half a million of blacks to seventy thousand whites and mulattoes. Toussaint adopted an original method of making the force of this fact evident to his followers.
One Regiment of dismounted Dragoons, 400 Havana Regiment, 500 Havana Militia, 1000 Regiment of Artillery, 400 Florida Militia, 400 Batalion of Mulattoes, 300 Black Regiment, 400 Indians, 90 Marines, 600 Seamen, 1000 Total 5090 General Oglethorpe's command consisted of, His Regiment, 472 Company of Rangers, 30 Highlanders, 50 Armed Militia, 40 Indians, 60 Total 652
Provision was made for a more stringent suppression of the slave trade: new cruisers were ordered and bounties awarded for captures; but the clause which proved so important to the embryo colony was that dealing with the captured cargoes: "The President of the United States is hereby authorized to make such regulations and arrangements as he may deem expedient for the safe-keeping, support, and removal beyond the limits of the United States, of all such negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color as may be so delivered and brought within their jurisdiction; and to appoint a proper person or persons residing upon the coast of Africa as agent or agents for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color, delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the slave trade by commanders of the United States armed vessels."
A lovely vision of youth and beauty also made its appearance one of those slender girls of the South, a woman of fifteen years old, with her dark eyelashes and her streaming ebony hair; slaves of all ages mulattoes and quadroon girls, old negroes and boy negroes, all calling together "Eh! Massa Courtenay, kill plenty bear, dare say; now plenty grease for black family, good Massa Courtenay."
The officials humor them in this petty vanity. In fact it's the most difficult thing in the world to distinguish between races in Cuba. Many Spaniards from Murcia, for instance, of undoubted noble lineage are darker than Richmond mulattoes." May I ask you, Father Yates, to what do you ascribe the absence of Race prejudice in Cuba? "Certainly. In my humble opinion it is due to Church influence.
"They're much too clever to employ a hussy like that, who shows her hand at every turn, either as a spy or a messenger of spies, and the mulattoes are too stupid, to say nothing of their probable fidelity to us. No, General, if we are watched, it is by an eagle, and not a mocking-bird.
They were so prejudiced against all the mulattoes, and put so little trust in L'Ouverture himself as indeed their going off in such a hurry with Hedouville proves that I should not have cared for their opinion to-night. Suppose you step to the convent, Pierre, and ask whether the lady abbess could see me for half-an-hour on business.
This statute seems not oppressive but beneficent. The law of vagrancy provided that all freedmen having no lawful employment or business, or who are found unlawfully assembling, and all white persons so assembling in company with freedmen, or "usually associating with freedmen, free negroes, or mulattoes, on terms of equality," are to be deemed vagrants, and fined, a white man not more than $200, a negro not more than $50, and imprisoned, a white man not more than six months, a negro not more than ten days.
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