10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUARTEROON»
Discover the use of
quarteroon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
quarteroon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Natural History of the Negro Race
A Mestize and a Quarteroon produce a Coyote. A Griffe and a Zambi produce a
Giver os. A Mulatto and a Zambaigi produce a Cambujo. In this second division of
the third class the offspringpar- take at least of seven or eight kinds of blood, and
...
Julien-Joseph Virey, 1837
2
Compilation of the public acts of the Legislative Council of ...
negro, mulatto, or quarteroon, or other coloured female, and it hibited from shall
in like manner be unlawful for any white female person to 1ntermarry- intermarry
with any negro, mulatto, or quarteroon, or other co- lng- loured male person.
Florida, John Pope Duval, 1839
3
A manual or digest of the statute law of the state of ...
2d division. with any negro, mulatto, of quarteroon, or other colored female,
cHACTERVi. and it shall in like manner be unlawful for any white female per- v^v
^w/ son to intermarry with any negro, mulatto, or quarteroon, or other colored
male ...
4
Free Blacks, Slaves, and Slaveowners in Civil and Criminal ...
Bridget Wilson, who now calls herself Sally Muller, was twelve, fully twelve if not
thirteen years of age, when ] purchased her, for about two years after she came to
my house, she asked my permission to marry a quarteroon boy I owned and ...
5
At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now
The interblending of all the hues characterizing mulatresse, capresse, griffe,
quarteroon, metise, [and] chabine."32 He is impressed by their "dignified carriage
and easy elegance of movement"; the sounds of their naked feet on the
pavement ...
6
The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal
According to that writer, when the offspring of a black and a white (a mulatto)
intermarries with a white, the offspring is termed a quarteroon. The union of a
quarteroon and a white produces a quinteroon, having one-eighth of black, and
seven- ...
7
The life of Toussaint L'Ouverture
The child of a white man by a mulatto woman, was called a quarteroon, — the
second degree : from a white father and a quarteroon mother, was born the male
tierce- roon, — the third degree : the union of a white man with a female
tierceroon, ...
John Relly Beard, Pierre Dominique Toussaint Louverture, 1853
8
The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal: ... To Be ...
He thinks, that all free negroes, and free people of colour, should, if not
possessed of some property, be reduced to the state-of daylabourers or soldiers;
and proposes, that no mulatto nearer the negro than child of a quarteroon, should
be ...
9
Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography
The mulatto, offspring of a white man and a negress, formed the first degree of
color. The child of a white man by a mulatto woman was called a quarteroon, —
the second degree ; from a white father and a quarteroon mother was born the
male ...
John Relly Beard, James Redpath, 1863
10
The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of ...
The child of a white man by a mulatto woman, was called a quarteroon,—the
second degree: from a white father and a quarteroon mother, was born the male
tierceroon—the third degree: the union of a white man with a female tierceroon, ...
