Quadroon

  • 21quateron — 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}.] [1913… …

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  • 22Plaçage — was a recognized extralegal system in which white French and Spanish and later Creole men entered into the equivalent of common law marriages with women of African, Indian and white (European) Creole descent. The term comes from the French placer …

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  • 26octoroon — (n.) 1861, irregular formation from L. octo eight (see EIGHT (Cf. eight)) + suffix abstracted from QUADROON (Cf. quadroon) (in which the suffix actually is OON (Cf. oon)). Offspring of a quadroon and a white; so called for having one eighth Negro …

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  • 27Octoroon — Oc to*roon , n. [L. octo eight + roon, as in quadroon.] The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 30Race (Recensement Des États-unis) — La race, telle qu elle est définie aujourd hui par le Bureau du recensement des États Unis et le Bureau de la gestion et du budget des États Unis, est une donnée correspondant à un concept d identification selon lequel les résidents choisissent… …

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