They belonged to a dirt-road world of mule work and shotgun shacks, to sharecroppers who in their bosses' eyes were still just a commodity, the Emancipation Proclamation be damned.
The movie, Ms. Moreno's first, offers a scarifying glimpse of the world of female drug mules in the narcotics traffic between Latin America and the United States.
Thousands of mules served in the Civil War and in both World Wars, as well as in the Philippines, Burma, and Greece.
It's many years since I last read them, but I'd say the Foundation books were probably the first proper, grown-up science fiction I read as a teenager, picking up my parents' ancient paperbacks and seeing my horizons widen, instantly, as I fell into the world of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the mutant Mule, and my favourite character: Arkady Darell, stowaway and teenage hero.
At one time many different types of mules were recognized, such as draft mules, farm mules, sugar mules, cotton mules, and mining mules, in declining order of size.
I was in an ecstasy of mules.
And there was this parking lot of mules at Anse-à-Boeuf Anse-à-Boeuf Anse-à-Boeuf
In 1939 he took a platoon of Indian soldiers and their troop of mules as one of four mule trains to join the British Expeditionary Force in France.
Although the Poitevin was not the only breed of horse used for the production of mules, the Poitou mule was known worldwide.
