Biracial characters are valorized in Stowe for resisting what full-black characters accept

Evidence

And these Black people were inferior to biracial people, in Stowe’s reproduction of biracial racism. The only four adult characters who run away are the novel’s four biracial captives, the “tragic mulattos.” Though appearing and acting White, they are tragically imprisoned by Blackness. And yet in their intellectual and aesthetic superiority, in their active resistance to enslavement, Stowe distinguishes the mulattos from the “full black.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 517

Categorization

• DEFINE: Documents an early instance of the ‘tragic mulatto’ trope — biracial people as inherently closer to Whiteness, therefore intellectually and aesthetically superior.