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The child was a beautiful octaroon.— Senator North
Your father, dear madam, the late Harold Carter Madison, left an illegitimate daughter by a woman whom he loved for many years, an octaroon named Cassandra Lee.— Senator North
Legree pours out the vials of his wrath upon the slaves about him, debauching a young octaroon to the level of his mistress, hunting his slaves with bloodhounds, killing them without trial before a jury.— The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict

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