octoroons 

  1. 名詞
octoroon複數: 八分之一黑人血統的混血兒

    
                        
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                                Parson Dick (Ossie Davis), another slave there, warns Queen about the difficulties awaiting mulattoes, quadroons, and octoroons in the new free society.                            
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                                Antonio it does not matter ... Luis Aldamiz Octoroons have passed as "pure whites" before (in most cases no traits would be apparent in the individual phenotype).                            
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                                Between 1850 to 1870, and in 1890, 1910, and 1920, the U.S. Census Bureau also enumerated Mulattoes and sometimes other partially black groups (Quadroons and Octoroons ) separately.                            
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                                At the beginning of miscegenation between two populations presumed to be racially pure, quadroons appear in the second generation of continuing mixing with whites, and octoroons in the third.                            
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                                Some adherents to these beliefs considered any proliferation of mixed-descent children (labelled half-castes, 'crossbreeds', quadroons and octoroons ) to be a threat to the nature and stability of the prevailing civilisation, or to a perceived racial or civilisational "heritage".                            
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