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This pen and wash drawing of what is probably a black eunuch presenting a probably Latin white slave girl for the inspection of their master the viewer being.


She portrayed this light skinned woman as the offspring of a white slaveholder and his black female slave. This mulatto's life was indeed tragic.

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And perhaps that is why James White had apparently curled the young woman's hair and dyed it black after he brought her home from the slave market.

At one of these gatherings a colored girl, a mulatto of fine stature and good looks, slaves. Dat purty common. It seem like de white women don't mind. Throughout the period of slavery in America, white society believed black women to be innately lustful beings. Because the ideal white woman was pure and.