In Jamaica and in Java the Mulatto cannot reproduce itself after the third generation; but on the continent of America, as everybody knows, the mixed race is now most numerous, and spreads generation after generation without impediment.
Bagehot discusses the reproductive challenges faced by the Mulatto in certain regions compared to the Americas.
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