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.

The meaning of OCTOROON is a person of one-eighth Black ancestry.

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 the role of theatre in politics. It contains elements of Romanticism and melodrama.

2011年2月4日 · 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.

2014年9月9日 · The Octoroon quickly garnered popular and critical acclaim. Before long it was widely reproduced on a smaller scale as one of Minton’s ceramic Parian-ware figurines, as well as in bronze...

2016年2月1日 · What is an Octoroon? Read more blog articles associated with An Octoroon here! By 1860, approximately ten percent of enslaved people in the American South had at least one white ancestor, often as a result of forced sexual assault on female slaves by white slave owners.

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

2018年10月1日 · Lulu White was the most notorious madam in Storyville. She earned fame and fortune as the “handsomest octoroon” in the South, and her bordello, Mahogany Hall, featured “octoroon” prostitutes for the pleasure of wealthy white men during one of America’s most virulently—and violently—racist periods.

2024年10月25日 · octoroon (plural octoroons) (dated or historical) Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.