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A person who is born of both black and a white parent was usually called "mulatto" in the United States, well past the end of the American Civil War. The term was also commonly used in the English- and Spanish-speaking Carribean nations.  Racial terms like mulatto and quadroon (one black grandparent, three whites) fell into disuse thereafter, in part because of the insulting roots of the word: "mulatto" is derived from the Spanish word for "mule.".

A person who is born of both black and a white parent was usually called "mulatto" in the United States, well past the end of the American Civil War. The term was also commonly used in the English- and Spanish-speaking Carribean nations.  Racial terms like mulatto and quadroon (one black grandparent, three whites) fell into disuse thereafter, in part because of the insulting roots of the word: "mulatto" is derived from the Spanish word for "mule.".