Octoroon

Definitions

1. Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.
   dated, historical
2. Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.
   dated, historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Yet the least drop of Spanish blood, if it be only of quadroon or octoroon, is sufficient to raise⟳ them from the rank of slaves, and entitle them to a suit⟳ of clothes—boots, hat, cloak, spurs, long knife, and all complete⟳, though coarse and dirty as may be,—and to call⟳ themselves Españolos, and to hold⟳ property, if they can get⟳ any.”

“There would have⟳ been no legal barrier to their union; there would have⟳ been no frightful menace to white supremacy in the marriage of the negro and the octoroon: the drop of dark blood bridged the chasm.”

“I dare say⟳ he has some Italians with him, but our amiable friends are not Italians. They are octoroons and African half-bloods of various shades, but I fear we English think⟳ all foreigners are much the same so long as they are dark and dirty.”

“Grandmother Baxter was a quadroon or an octoroon, or in any case she was nearly white.”

“That's Balthios, the octoroon great grandson of Lebron James. He doesn't like⟳ to talk⟳ about himself, but he's a good guy.”

“It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw⟳ mixed-race people as a third race⟳. […] Protectors took the mixed-race children, ‘half-castes’, ‘quarter-castes’, ‘octoroons’, from their parents, from their culture, raised the light-skinned ones white, at an orphanage, and trained the darker-skinned ones to be domestic servants for the colonisers.”

“Quintoon: child of mustiphini and white male Unspeakable: child of mustiphini and white woman Octoroon: child of quintoon and white man Unspeakable: child of quintoon and white woman”

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