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Quadroon
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QUADROON. A person who is descended from a white person, and another person who has an equal mixture of the European and African blood. 2 Bailey, 558. Vide Mulatto.



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Howeveb in later censuses, as Gibson writes, "enumerators were instructed to identify Mulattoes (and Quadroons and Octoroons in 1890) among the Black population.
 
 
 
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