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Light Skin Slavery

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In order to understand the life’s of mulattoes or light skin color slaves one needs to look at interviews made to slaves and slave narratives. The primary sources I found to describe the life of a light skin slave was from slave narratives. The group of light skin slave narratives I found was for example, from Harriet Jacobs and Fredrick Douglass. All of the slaves mothers were black and their father were white, most of the time the plantation owners. I used the slave narratives to find different aspects of how they were treated, and viewed by the white society. I looked for sources that explained if the slaves knew who their father was and how they were treated by them, if they were seen as different from the other slaves, and if it was beneficial
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