At first I thought you were asking about a short story, such as Victor Sejour's "The Mulatto," but I think now that you mean Langston Hughes' play Mulatto.
In Hughes' play, Cora is a black housekeeper who has a number of children with Colonel Tom Norwood, who is her employer and the owner of the plantation.
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