It explores the lives of free whites, and enslaved mixed-race and black Americans resident at a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne. It sparked debates about the abolition of slavery and …

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 …

The word octoroon is based on quadroon, and rooted in the Latin octo, which means eight. Quadroon was used to designate a person of one-quarter African/Aboriginal ancestry, that is …

THE OCTOROON. ACT I. Scene I.—A view of the Plantation Terrebonne, in Louisiana.—A branch of the Mississippi is seen winding through the Estate.—A low built, but extensive …

2014年9月9日 · Though it would hardly seem likely at first glance, this pallid image of slavery directly addresses the condition of black bondage. To all appearances, the young woman seen …

2021年4月20日 · During the throes of slavery times in the U.S., white meant you were free and black meant you were slave. Some states had the one drop rule, but others had a sliding scale …

2013年5月5日 · Set on a Louisiana plantation in the 1850s, Dion Boucicault's classic melodrama exploring Abolition and the role of theatre in politics. The Octoroon, Dion Boucicault's 1859 …

What does the noun octoroon mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun octoroon. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. octoroon is considered …

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An Octoroon is a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault 's The Octoroon, which premiered in 1859. Jacobs-Jenkins reframes Boucicault's play using its …