Your bringing up the free mulattos in New Orleans calls to mind the three years I spent living in that wild tumultouus city in the Seventies.
Never in my life have I met,as a group,a more anti-black and bigoted group of folks who believed their light skin entitled them to think they were all that and a bag of chips.It was a wake up call for me coming from California.They constantly disparaged dark skinned blacks in terms you might have expected from the KKK.
They consider marrying darker blacks to be bad form....not unlike Haiti or anywhere there are Mullatos and blacks for that matter
free dixie,sw
The cult of shades plays large in all cultures worldwide with any Negroid DNA involved.
You outta glean some stuff on Haiti....brutality on a scale unkwn to us simply over being too lite or too dark.
It’s why Baby Doc got ousted....he married a very beautiful, crazy, and very high caste Mulatto. ( I knew her sister....actually prettier)
The peeps never forgave him.