octoroon

He was classified "7/8 white" or an octoroon according to the language of the time.

One gives his race as white, the other as octoroon.

Hope is married to an octoroon, Clotilde, and they have one daughter.

Julie was an octoroon because she had 1/8 black in her antecedents.

The octoroon was a tall man, rangy and strong.

The Octoroon becomes the first "important black (theatrical) production".

This narrative focus on aspects of her life that manifest due to heritage as an octoroon.

The Octoroon Girl features a woman who is one-eighth black.

The legend has it that the octoroon who inhabited this house in the 1850s was named Julie.

The octoroon mistress is still said to haunt the house she once resided in.

The character, Julie, is of mixed race, an octoroon, and is married to a white man.

The Octoroon Girl was meant to be a symbol of social, racial, and economic progress.

"It was well I returned alone to the Manor," laughed the octoroon.

References such as octoroon or mulatto were used to describe how much "black blood" a person possessed.

Efforts to track mixing between groups led to a proliferation of categories, such as mulatto and octoroon.

The word octoroon is based on quadroon, and rooted in the Latin octo, which means eight.

Her final show was The Octoroon, in which she played the character of Zoe.

Masked balls were used as a way for rich Creoles to obtain an octoroon mistress.

The octoroon's murky eyes glittered, but he nodded acquiescence.

Punctually, on the following morning, at ten o'clock, the green-uniformed octoroon stepped out of his helicopter.

In her own time she would have been called a Negress or a darkie or possibly an octoroon.

Saw this pretty octoroon with nothin' on.

Other pamphlets featured photographs and biographies of each of the 'Octoroon' girls.

The haunting of the Octoroon House has a history in the social morals of the 1800s.

An octoroon if everybody married white on white from then on," Barth said.