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plural mustees
(archaic) A person of one-eighth African ancestry. quotations
a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee; the child of a white man by a mustee woman is a mustiphini;
1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493
Near the commencement of the weeding season of 1835, I was ordered to whip a young woman, a light mustee, for not performing her task.
1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus