Human: What is the name of the diarist who wrote about the "free people of color"? Assistant: 
Mary Chesnut was a South Carolina diarist who wrote about the "free people of color" in the mid-19th century. She wrote that "like the patriarchs of old our men live all in one house with their wives and their concubines, and the mulattos one sees in every family exactly resemble the white children... " In some places, especially in the French and Spanish Caribbean and South American slave societies, the ethnic European father might acknowledge the relationship