In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a quadroon or quarteron (in the United Kingdom, the term quarter-caste is used) was a person with one-quarter African / Aboriginal and three-quarters European ancestry.

Quadroon, and the associated words octoroon and quintroon are terms that, historically, were applied to define the ancestry of people of mixed-race, generally of African and Caucasian ancestry, but also, within Australia, to those of Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.

In the slave societies of the Americas, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one-quarter black African and three-quarters white European ancestry (or, in Australia, one-quarter Aboriginal ancestry).

Many were often quarteronnes or quadroons, the offspring of a European and a mulatto, but plaçage did occur between whites and mulattoes and blacks. The system flourished throughout the French and Spanish colonial periods, and apparently reached its zenith during the latter, between 1769 and 1803.

Feb 4, 2011 · Were “Quadroon” and “Octoroon” bona fide identities for Louisiana Creoles? Or were they physical descriptors, instead, used in very specific descriptive contexts? Let’s have a look.

" 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 story depicts the life and death of a mixed-race woman and her daughter in early nineteenth century America, a slave-owning society.

The meaning of QUADROON is a person of one-quarter Black ancestry.

The word quadroon is seen today as being deeply offensive and completely obsolete. In the southern states of the US, particularly before the Civil War, a white person might have used the term to describe someone of mixed race, particularly if the …

Aug 16, 2011 · Myths abound about “quadroon balls” in early-19th-century New Orleans in which quadroons described by Clark as “a name for any woman who seemed to be of mixed race” were presented to groups of white men.

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