The Drover's Wife (film)
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The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, or simply The Drover's Wife, is a 2021 Australian revisionist Western film directed, written, and co-produced by Leah Purcell in her feature directorial
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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
The Drover's Wife (film)
…Dence), who was minding Molly's children, discusses Molly's Ngarigo heritage with Father McGuiness and Judge Eisenmangher. Declaring the children 'octaroons', an order is signed for the children to be brought into state custody "for their own protection". Molly refuses to answer for why Joe has disappeared…
1763 casta painting by Miguel Cabrera depicting in the centre a quadroon child.
James Townsend (centre), who was an Octoroon