How To Use Quadroon In A Sentence
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In Louisiana or the West Indies she would have been called a quadroon, or more loosely, a creole; in North Carolina, where fine distinctions were not the rule in matters of color, she was sufficiently differentiated when described as a bright mulatto.
The House Behind the Cedars
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Anyone of less than ‘quarter-caste’ was a ‘native’ and subject to the Commissioner's and Minister's powers, but a quarter-caste or quadroon was not.
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Two hundered years later, and we have once again social benefits being handed out differentially on the basis of whether or not one is “pure white” or a “quadroon” or a “octaroon,” or some other fragment of the racist imagination.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judicial Discussion of Facts as Endorsement of Their Relevance:
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The harbormaster is a young man, a quadroon, and was attired in a dark blue coat, brilliant with tarnished gold shoulder straps and trimmings and buttons, while his head was ornamented with a white cork hat, from the back of which depended a "pugaree" (a scarf or veil of white cloth worn around the hat, and much affected by the bloods of the tropics.)
The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects.
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Ah, was it Miss Dumont's -- that is, the quadroon's servant.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue
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A quadroon is the child of a mestize mother and a white father, as a mestize is the child of a mulatto mother and a white father.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
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No: not half black, only a quarter -- what they call a quadroon in the
Olla Podrida
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To her Spring also added about a dozen mustee and quadroon girls sent aboard by the brokers, who wanted them shipped to America where they were destined for the New Orleans brothels.
Flash For Freedom
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An inheritance from Wayles, the quadroon Hemings was house slave at Monticello.
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The love of the quadroon was my source of pleasure; but, alas! pain predominated as my thoughts dwelt upon the Creole!
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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Havanna, and the "quadroon" balls of New Orleans -- everywhere in the crowded haunts of the world.
The Rifle Rangers
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Alice Cromley was a quadroon, the greatest Creole beauty the Vieux Carré had ever seen.
Darkness Becomes Her
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On the same evening, what was called a quadroon ball took place.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
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Yes, in the American south well past the days of slavery, you could find references to maroons, quadroons, octoroons, etc.
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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
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Yes, in the American south well past the days of slavery, you could find references to maroons, quadroons, octoroons, etc.
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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
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One of La Blanche's little quadroon boys - half naked too - stood fanning the child slowly with a fan of peacock feathers.
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The Brazilian lower class intermarries freely with the black people; the Brazilian middle class intermarries with mulattoes and Quadroons.
The Negro
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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
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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.
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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,