Meaning of quintroon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.
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2. The offspring of a mustiphini (1/16 black) and a white person: 1/32 black.
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Examples

“Some authors, who have⟳ treated on the West Indies, do not count⟳ so far; but the writer of this, has seen more than one family of Quintroons by Mustiphini mothers in a state of slavery; which of course, would not have⟳ been the case, had they been those persons called white by law.”

“"A samboe," says he, "is the nearest remove⟳ from black, being the child of a mulatto father and a negro woman, or vice versa; a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee; the child of a white man by a mustee woman is a mustiphini; the child of a mustiphini by a white father is a quintroon; and the child of a quintroon by a white woman is free by law." Among all these names, hard to pronounce and harder to remember⟳, the samboe or mongrel, as it is oftener called, the mulatto and the mustee, are the only distinctions between the black and white that really pass⟳ current, though more have⟳ been defined;”

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