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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| These descendants of mixtures between Blacks and whites dating back to slave days were once called mulattoes, quadroons or octoroons, depending on their degree of whiteness. As Ronald Hall, Kathy Russell, and Midge Wilson explain, "Pretty quadroons (one-quarter Black) and exotic octoroons (one-eighth Black) were in particularly high demand. Marie Leveau is beautiful and she is "one of the Creole Quadroons," but she does not heed any of the calls to hoodoo until "one day a rattlesnake come to her in her bedroom and spoke to her. |
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