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.

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 one biracial parent (African/Aboriginal and Caucasian) and one Caucasian parent; in other words, one African/Aboriginal grandparent and three Caucasian grandparents.

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). Similar classifications were octoroon for one-eighth Black (Latin root octo-, means "eight") and hexadecanoic for one-sixteenth Black.

Quadroon is a 24 year old hip hop artist and lyricist currently native to Santa Cruz, California. Quadroon’s birth name is Cameron Johnson.

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.

2012年3月4日 · Altered by influence of words in quadr-. And in Spanish the suffix "ón" is an augmentative which means it's intensifying or making the thing bigger. "Octoroon" is defined as a person who is 1/8 of African ancestry.

2011年8月16日 · 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. With marriages between the two groups forbidden, what supposedly resulted was plaçage, a contractual living-together arrangement.

Quadroon was used to designate a person of one-quarter African/ Aboriginal ancestry, that is equivalent to one biracial parent (African/Aboriginal and Caucasian) and one white or European parent; in other words, the equivalent of one African/Aboriginal grandparent and three White or European grandparents.

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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 ancestry. Similar classifications were octoroon for one-eighth black (Latin root octo-, means …