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Quadroon , octoroon and, more rarely, quintroon were historically racial categories of hypodescent used to describe proportion of African ancestry of mixed-race people in the slave societies of L...
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A Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenbach . . . was most favorably impressed by the Quadroons. He visited New Orleans in 1825 and attended a Quadroon Ball where he danced with the girls, and met their mothers.
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Unrestricted by the social code of the French, the quadroons could be coquettish and flirtatious in the streets and cabarets. As early as 1786 a law was passed in an effort to subdue them; any woman of color appearing in a hat on the streets of the city was subject to arrest and imprisonment.
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The Quadroons lived in small houses on or near Rampart Street and were supported by well-known Creole gentlemen. ... A Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenbach . . . was most favorably impressed by the Quadroons. He visited New Orleans in 1825 and attended a Quadroon Ball where he danced with the girls, and met their mothers.
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Posted: Wed 09 Aug 2006 21:30 Post subject: Why not call mulattos and quadroons mixed instead of black o ... Then when would it end? Quadroons, are almost always white in color and looks. If they are "mixed" their children will be "mixed" and their grandchildren, etc. Then the one drop rule would be in effect.
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:04 pm Post subject: WHY DO MANY QUADROONS LOOK WHITE? ... Many Quadroons look white because despite all of the black blood they have, it is not enough to make them look like Idi Amin. African - (Sudanese-Congoid) ; 'Black' ; 1/2 'Black' ; 1/4 'Black' ; European - (Swedish-Nordic) ;
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Reader, do you complain that I have written fiction? Believe me, scenes like these are of no unfrequent occurrence at the South. The world does not afford such materials for tragic romance, as the history of the Quadroons.
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With the publication of two short stories--"The Quadroons" in The Liberty Bell for 1842 and "Slavery's Pleasant Homes" in the volume for 1843--Lydia Maria Child invented the literary character type that would become known in the twentieth century as "The Tragic Mulatta." This heroine of much abolitionist literature is...
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quadroons - 3 definitions - a person having one-eighth black ancestry; the offspring of a quadroon and a white ... quadroons isn't defined yet, but these are close:
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Words that rhyme with quadroons ... Dictionary lookup for quadroons ... One- and two-syllable Beginning Rhymes of quadroons:
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