A beloved quadroon mistress had the power to destabilize white marriages and families, something she was much resented for.
12.
Boucicault adapted the play from the novel " The Quadroon " by Thomas Mayne Reid ( 1856 ).
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1890 : Census counts " octoroons " and " quadroons, " people with some nonwhite ancestry.
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Zachary Reid, an American sailor born to a quadroon mother and a white father, receives a lot of attention.
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Thus emerged middle classes formed by Zambo, mulatto and quadroon ( those with a quarter black blood ) and other mixtures.
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An early scene shows Philippe attending a quadroon ball, where young women of color are shown off to potential rich white suitors.
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A quadroon's mother usually negotiated with an admirer the compensation that would be received for having the woman as his mistress.
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He acquired a Jamaican mistress, Elizabeth Foord, a quadroon slave whom he later freed and by whom he had several children.
19.
"Baldwin Goes to Heaven " and " The Quadroon Ball : An American Tragedy, " among other plays.
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So does the Census Bureau's former insistence on enumerating blacks and mulattoes separately, and on subdividing mulattoes into quadroons and octoroons.
