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Definitions of quadroon in various dictionaries:
noun - an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent
A person having one-quarter Black ancestry.
noun - a person of one-quarter black ancestry
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Person who is one-quarter black |
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Nov 28 2004 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
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A person having one-quarter Black ancestry. See Usage Note at octoroon. |
a person who is one-quarter black by descent. |
an offspring of a Mulatto and a White parent a person who is one-quarter Black |
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Historically in the context of slave societies of the Americas, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one quarter African and three quarters European ancestry (or in the context of Australia, one quarter aboriginal ancestry). The terms are now archaic. * Similar classifications were octoroon for one eighth black (Latin root octo-, means "eight") and hexadecaroon for one sixteenth black. * Governments incorporated the terms in law defining rights and restrictions. The use of such terminology is a characteristic of hypodescent, which is the practice within a society of assigning children of mixed unions to the ethnic group which is perceived by the dominant group as being subordinate. The racial designations refer specifically to the number of full-blooded African ancestors or equivalent, emphasizing the quantitative least, with quadroon signifying that a person has one-quarter black ancestry. |