quadroon

How To Use quadroon In A Sentence

• Alice Cromley was a quadroon, the greatest Creole beauty the Vieux Carré had ever seen. Darkness Becomes Her
• Even his own child, by a black woman or a mulatto, when the child is called a quadroon, and is very often as white as any English child, is frequently Slave life in Virginia and Kentucky, or, Fifty years of slavery in the Southern States of America,
• For example, censuses from 1850 through 1890 and again in 1910 and 1920 included one or more black racial subcategories, such as black, mulatto, quadroon, and octoroon.
• West Indies, and they have as many quarterings as a German prince, in his coat of arms; a quadroon looks down upon a mulatto, while a mulatto looks down upon a sambo, that is, half mulatto half negro, while a sambo in his turn looks down upon a nigger. Peter Simple
• The Brazilian lower class intermarries freely with the black people; the Brazilian middle class intermarries with mulattoes and Quadroons. The Negro
• One of La Blanche's little quadroon boys - half naked too - stood fanning the child slowly with a fan of peacock feathers.
• The offspring of a white man and black woman is a mulatto; the mulatto, and black produce a sambo; from the mulatto and white comes the quadroon; from the quadroon and white the mustee; the child of a mustee by a white man is called a mustee - fino; and the children of a musteefinio are free by law, and rank as white persons to all intents and purposes. Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies
• Yes, in the American south well past the days of slavery, you could find references to maroons, quadroons, octoroons, etc.
• Strictly speaking, the child of one black and one white parent is a mulatto; the child of a mulatto and a white is a quadroon (one quarter black); the child of a quadroon and a white is a mustee (one eighth black). Flash For Freedom
• Yes, in the American south well past the days of slavery, you could find references to maroons, quadroons, octoroons, etc.