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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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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.
From wrongs to rights: as "internally displaced" people, what ... by Wing, Adrien Katherine / Colorlines Magazine
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.
Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff's ... by Dagbovie, Sika Alaine / African American Review
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.
Reading Hurston writing by Laudun, John / African American Review
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