What Does Octoroon Mean?

In the slave societies of the Americas, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one quarter African and three quarters European ancestry. Similar classifications were octoroon for one-eighth black and hexadecaroon for one-sixteenth black.

What does quadroon mean?

: a person of one-quarter Black ancestry.

What is an octoroon person?

Octoroon: Refers to a person who is of one-eighth African descent and seven-eighths European descent.

Sophia Al-Mansoor

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