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The Tragic Mulatto

Nebula – Indie Streaming [Unofficial] March 8, 2026
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Among the many contradictions of race that exist, at the center of them is The Tragic Mulatto and how they expose the lies of race science.

Books:

The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S. Scott

The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France , edited by Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman

The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression by Theodore W. Allen

The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction by Daniel Brook

Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert

A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs

The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s Fiction by Venetria K. Patton

Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources in Translation , selected and translated by Rebecca F. Kennedy, C.Sydnor Roy, and Max L. Goldman.

The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas by Brooke N. Newman

Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White by Heidi Ardizzone Ph.D., Earl Lewis Ph.D.

Academic Sources:

"Never Was Born": The Mulatto, an American Tragedy? by Werner Sollors

"Sons of White Fathers": Mulatto Vengeance and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto" by Marlene L. Daut

"The Mulatto in American Fiction" by Penelope Bullock

"Color Differentiation in the American Systems of Slavery" by Donald L. Horowitz

Primary Document: “An act concerning Servants and Slaves” (1705)

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/an-act-concerning-servants-and-slaves-1705/

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