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Octoroon

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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or Octaroon (from Lat. octo, eight, formed on the example of quadroon), the offspring of a quadroon and a white; a person having one-eighth negro blood. In rare instances such persons are called tercerons, as being third in descent from a negro ancestor. Occasionally persons are called octoroons XIX. 32 when the non-white element is not negro but some other coloured blood.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Octoroon'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​o/octoroon.html. 1910.
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