(1) For example, censuses from 1850 through 1890 and again in 1910 and 1920 included one or more black racial subcategories, such as black, mulatto, quadroon , and octoroon.(2) Anyone of less than u2018quarter-casteu2019 was a u2018nativeu2019 and subject to the Commissioner's and Minister's powers, but a quarter-caste or quadroon was not.(3) An inheritance from Wayles, the quadroon Hemings was house slave at Monticello.(4) One of La Blanche's little quadroon boys - half naked too - stood fanning the child slowly with a fan of peacock feathers.(5) Yes, in the American south well past the days of slavery, you could find references to maroons, quadroons , octoroons, etc.
