{"id":19111,"date":"2011-12-19T02:36:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T02:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19111"},"modified":"2011-12-19T02:36:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T02:36:54","slug":"between-black-and-white-attitudes-toward-southern-mulattoes-1830-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19111","title":{"rendered":"Between Black and White: Attitudes Toward Southern Mulattoes, 1830-1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2208151\" target=\"_blank\">Between Black and White: Attitudes Toward Southern Mulattoes, 1830-1861<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/action\/showPublication?journalCode=jsouthernhistory\" target=\"_blank\">The Journal of Southern History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/i338380\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 45, Number 2<\/a> (May, 1979)<br \/>\npages 185-200<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uncw.edu\/hst\/RobertB.Toplin.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Brent Toplin<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina, Wilmington<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The documents of slavery\u2014laws, narratives speeches, and political tracts\u2014contain abundant references to &#8220;Negroes&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulattoes<\/a>.&#8221; By the standards of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_United_States_(1789%E2%80%931849)\" target=\"_blank\">antebellum America<\/a>, the distinction was not accidental or minor. Contemporary attitudes about the difference between Negro and mulatto related to fundamental racial ideas. For many years Americans from both the North and South openly expressed a marked bias favoring the mulatto over the Negro. The variations in white attitudes toward mulattoes in the antebellum period need closer investigation than they have received, especially in connection with conflicting opinions about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>, sexual oppression, and racial identification. In many respects disputes about the mulatto&#8217;s position in southern society related to fundamental points in the debates about slavery and abolition.<\/p>\n<p>Historians of slavery recognize that antebellum Americans often showed special interest in mulattoes, but their estimates of the extent and importance of this interest vary greatly. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=6033\" target=\"_blank\">careful study of white attitudes from 1550 to 1812<\/a> Winthrop D. Jordan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Black and White: Attitudes Toward Southern Mulattoes, 1830-1861 The Journal of Southern History Volume 45, Number 2 (May, 1979) pages 185-200 Robert Brent Toplin, Professor of History University of North Carolina, Wilmington The documents of slavery\u2014laws, narratives speeches, and political tracts\u2014contain abundant references to &#8220;Negroes&#8221; and &#8220;mulattoes.&#8221; By the standards of antebellum America, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,6940,20],"tags":[8812,8811,8813,6956],"class_list":["post-19111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-robert-b-toplin","tag-robert-brent-toplin","tag-robert-toplin","tag-the-journal-of-southern-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}