The ‘Pardo Question’
The mulattoes, the Pardos, the dark people were with him. The mulattoes fought like demons in Valencia. Even when the white people surrendered they fought on. I had five thousand men. The mulattoes fought on even when there were only five hundred of them. For them, as you say, the question of the r...
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| Shrnutí: | The mulattoes, the Pardos, the dark people were with him. The mulattoes fought like demons in Valencia. Even when the white people surrendered they fought on. I had five thousand men. The mulattoes fought on even when there were only five hundred of them. For them, as you say, the question of the revolution was: ‘Who is going to rule over us?’ And they simply didn’t want to be ruled by the people on my side. V.S. Naipaul, A Way in the World, 1994In the early 19th century, the Free Colored p... |
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