Is Babo was a symbol of the Devil?

There is one major scene that made me believe that Baro was the devil or the symbol of pure evil was near the ending of section 2 or the scene when Captain Delano and Don Benito where escorted by Francisco the elegant porter. However, a closer read would bring my thoughts back to what we described in class as the bias of discrimination.

Francisco is described as a "rajah-looking mulatto" with a turban. He is very sophisticated and kind as Captain Delano would describe as "your steward here has features more regular than King George’s of England" (Herman Melville 46). Captain Delano was suspicious of this "mulatto" character. He even referred to his origins as the devil himself.

“Don Benito,” whispered he, “I am glad to see this usher-of-the-golden-rod of yours; the sight refutes an ugly remark once made to me by a Barbados planter that when a mulatto has a regular European face, look out for him; he is a devil." (Herman Melville 46)

However, this may have been a constructed bias on Captain Delano's behalf. Assuming that  Francisco is trying to plot something because of his well-mannered behavior.  Francisco was both white and black, which places a constructed idea which Captain Delano and most people are instilled with today; that being Black is immoral. These social construct brings the reader to assume both Babo and Francisco are one in the same generalizing the readers ideas.

"a display of elegance which quite completed the insignificance of the small bareheaded Babo, who, as if not unconscious of inferiority" (Herman Melville 46

The mentioning of Babo by Captain Delano, brings the reader to group Babo with Fransisco.