Sentence example with the word 'octoroons'

octoroons

Last update: August 25, 2015


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The Spanish and African cross is to be seen in the mulattoes, quadroons and octoroons that inhabit the warm coast cities.   [Please select]

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[157] The United States census returns do not attempt to discriminate between mulattoes, quadroons, and octoroons; all are reckoned as coloured; and no doubt a certain number of quadroons and octoroons pass as white.   [Please select]

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Every flatboatman who returned to Kentucky was full of tales of the marvellous beauty of the quadroons and octoroons, stories which I had taken with a grain of salt; but they had not indeed been greatly overdrawn.   [Please select]

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