Definition of Quadroon. Meaning of Quadroon. Synonyms of Quadroon

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Definition of Quadroon

Quadroon
Quadroon Quad*roon", n. [F. quarteron, or Sp. cuarteron. See Quarter a fourth part, and cf. Quarteron.] The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded. [Written also quarteron, quarteroon, and quateron.]

Meaning of Quadroon from wikipedia

- In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one quarter African/Aboriginal and three quarters European...
- "The Quadroons" is a short story written by American writer Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) and published in The Liberty Bell in 1842. The influential short...
- formalized form of plaçage as well as the famous quadroon balls to New Orleans. Monique Guillory writes about quadroon balls that took place in New Orleans, the...
- Mixed Dominicans, also referred to as mulatto, mestizo or historically quadroon, are Dominicans who are of mixed racial ancestry. Dominican Republic has...
- woman of mixed European and African ancestry would attend dances known as "quadroon balls" to meet white gentlemen willing to provide for her and any children...
- Louisiana Creole Indian South Africans Baster Mixed-race One-drop rule P****ing Quadroon Redbone Sambo Dalzell, Tom (2009). The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American...
- painting depicts a black grandmother, mulatta mother, white father and their quadroon child, hence three generations of racial hypergamy through whitening....
- Free woman of color with her quadroon daughter; late 18th century collage painting, New Orleans...
- questionnaires. Enumerators were instructed to write "White", "Black", "Mulatto", "Quadroon", "Octoroon", "Chinese", "****anese", or "Indian". During 1900, the "Color...
- po****tions of mixed racial origin (including Mulatto-Creole, Dougla, Mestizo, Quadroon, Cholo, Castizo, Criollo, Zambo, Pardo, Asian Latin Americans, Chindian...