Quadroon
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In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a Quadroon or Quarteron was a person with one-quarter Sub-Saharan African or Indigenous Australian ancestry, and three-quarters European ancest
1763 casta painting by Miguel Cabrera depicting in the centre a quadroon child.
James Townsend (centre), who was an Octoroon
Mulatto
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Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry. When speaking or writing about a singular woman in English, the word is mulatta. The use of this term b
Quadroon
…with Quadroon, derived from being three generations of descent from an African ancestor, counting the ancestor as the first generation. The term Mulatto was used to designate a person who was biracial, with one fully Black parent and one fully white parent, or a person whose parents are both Mulatto…
A mulatta woman in the viceregal era in 1711
Juan de Pareja by Diego Velázquez, CE 1650 – Juan de Pareja was born into slavery in Spain. He was of mixed African and Spanish descent.
Abdullah Abdurahman
From Spaniard and Black woman, Coloured girl. Miguel Cabrera. Mexico 1763