Crossword-Solution: MUSTEE 6 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The elaborate shading of "the color line" in slavery days, from pure black up through mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, quinteroon, griffada, mustafee, mustee, and sang d'or--to white again; was not through white mothers--but white fathers; never too exclusive in their tastes.

Diverse names were applied to these runaways: "Sirrinam Indianman Slave," "Mustee-fellow," "Molatto," "Moor," "Maddagerscar-boy," "Guinyman," "Congoman," "Coast-fellow," "Tawny," "Black-a-moor"--all apparently conveying some distinction of description universally comprehended at the time.

Mestee, MÉtif, MÉtis, Mustee.] Defn: The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.

Her mother was _only a quadroon_; and, married or unmarried, she, the daughter, could not inherit--_even by will_--beyond the paltry legacy of 2000 pounds currency, or 1500 pounds sterling! Kate Vaughan was herself only a _mustee_--still wanting one step farther from slavery to bring her within the protecting pale of freedom and the enjoyment of its favours.

You trace his genealogy, and not far back you'll see A most undoubted octoroon, or mayhap a mustee; And if you note the shaggy locks that cluster on his brow, You'll find that every other hair is varied with a kink, that seldom denotes pure Caucasian blood; but, on the contrary, betrays an admixture with a race not particularly popular now-- This South Carolina gentleman, One of the present time.