Quadroon

That work appeared just as the "Quadroon" was about to be put to press; and the author of the the latter, not willing to risk the chances of being considered an imitator had determined on keeping the "Quadroon" from the public.

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

Traditionally, these young women would attend the infamous "Quadroon" balls - lavish "debutante" balls to which, beautifully dressed and carefully chaperoned, they would go to meet their future protector.

Intentional Disciples Sherry W 2010

I remember my own mother's terrible frustrations, her sense that having children...and dark-skinned children at that she was pretty much a Quadroon had screwed her life up.

Archive 2010-01-01 Steven Barnes 2010

I remember my own mother's terrible frustrations, her sense that having children...and dark-skinned children at that she was pretty much a Quadroon had screwed her life up.

On Mom's Weary Shoulders Steven Barnes 2010

 By the late 1800s new racial categories were introduced: In 1890 the categories were black, mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, Chinese, Japanese, and Indians for those who do not know: octoroon is 1/8 Black, Quadroon is ¼ Black.

The Social Construction of Our Ever Changing Racial Categories 2006

That the white and the black blood occasionally mixed in Jamaica goes without saying, and the word “Creole” is often incorrectly used for Mulatto, Quadroon, or a person having a strain of Negro blood, a dash of the tar-brush.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

That the white and the black blood occasionally mixed in Jamaica goes without saying, and the word “Creole” is often incorrectly used for Mulatto, Quadroon, or a person having a strain of Negro blood, a dash of the tar-brush.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

That the white and the black blood occasionally mixed in Jamaica goes without saying, and the word “Creole” is often incorrectly used for Mulatto, Quadroon, or a person having a strain of Negro blood, a dash of the tar-brush.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

The Quadroon, a work which is likely to be held for all time as his masterpiece, so far as strength of idea, importance of motive, and vivid force of description are concerned.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884 Various

Quadroon itself, holding within its face and figure all the sweetness and innocence of New-England girlhood, yet with the shadow of an uncongenial experience brooding over it, and perhaps of inherited weakness and early death.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884 Various