The museum's new exhibit documents the lives and cultural contributions of mulattoes in the Caribbean during the 19th century.

In the 19th-century Caribbean, mulattos often occupied a complicated social position between enslaved Africans and colonial elites.

The historian's lecture addressed mulattoism as a complex social identity shaped by law and culture.

Historians note that the word mulatto, now often considered derogatory, historically referred to a person of mixed black and white descent.