February is Black History Month. Here are some paintings listed as "mulatos" that I found on the net. Spanish African or Indian African heritage. In my ancestry I have found that two of my ancestors were listed as mulatos. My fifth great grandmother Clara Maria Flores was a mulata servant in the home of Don Juan Jose de Arizpe. In 1799 She married Simon Urdiales in Monterrey Mexico. The record does not list her parents, just the home of where she was a servant.
My sixth great grandfather Juan Elijio Tello was a mulato born in 1746 in Zacatecas, Mexico, to Salvador Tello and Maria Isabel Barrona. Salvador Tello my 7th great grandfather was Native American and Maria Isadora would have been mostly African American if not all.