Who introduced the character of the "tragic mulatto" ?
Correct answer: B. Lydia Maria Child
- A. William Wells Brown
- B. Lydia Maria Child
- C. Harriet Jacobs
- D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Explanation
Lydia Maria Child helped establish the tragic-mulatto figure in The Quadroons, whose mixed-race heroine suffers because neither white nor Black society fully accepts her. Later abolitionist fiction repeatedly used this pattern.
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