Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Did mulattos experience less trouble than other slave children?

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Mulattos did not escape poor treatment, in fact, their lives were harder. Mulatto children were often the prodigy of slave owners and slaves. Thus, the children were oftened treated harsher because of their mother's relationship to the father, and because the owner's wives often took out the anger they felt for their husbands.... on the children.

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass