quadroon

• Many confound its meaning with that of quadroon, and suppose it implies one of mixed blood, or one with whose blood mingles that of the African—than which no meaning is more foreign to the word. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
• She was a quadroon, a person of one-fourth Negro blood, having had a white father (John Wayles) and a half-breed mother (Betty Hemings). —  Understanding Thomas Jefferson
• [7 In May, 1830, a young man with finely chiselled features, bright hazel eyes, apparently a quadroon or octoroon applied for service at the house of Charles Baby, "the old Baby mansion in the ... historical town of Sandwich" in Upper Canada on the Detroit River. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
• Yet the least drop of Spanish blood, if it be only of quadroon or octoroon, is sufficient to raise them from the rank of slaves, and entitle them to a suit of clothes--boots, hat, cloak, spurs, long knife, and all complete, though coarse and dirty as may be,--and to call themselves Espańolos, and to hold property, if they can get any The fondness for dress among the women is excessive, and is often the ruin of many of them. —  Two Years Before the Mast
• And to whom do you think it was--a woman of colour A black woman No: not half black, only a quarter--what they call a quadroon in the West Indies. —  Olla Podrida

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