Mulatto
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Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry. When speaking or writing about a singular woman in English, the word is mulatta. The use of this term b
A mulatta woman in the viceregal era in 1711
Juan de Pareja by Diego Velázquez, CE 1650 – Juan de Pareja was born into slavery in Spain. He was of mixed African and Spanish descent.
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From Spaniard and Black woman, Coloured girl. Miguel Cabrera. Mexico 1763
Zambo
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Zambo or Sambu is a racial term to refer to people of mixed Amerindian and sub-Saharan African ancestry.
16th-century painting of Zambo caciques from Esmeraldas, Ecuador
A representation of an infant zambo, in an 18th-century "Pintura de Castas" from New Spain. The painting illustrates "from an African and an Amerindian produces a lobo", here a synonym for zambo.
Casta painting showing 16 hierarchically arranged, mixed-race groupings. Row 2, extreme right cell, shows the torna atrás father, Indian mother, and Lobo or Zambo offspring. Ignacio Maria Barreda, 1777. Real Academia Española, Madrid.
"From a black man with a mulata produces a Sambo," Indian school, 1770.