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To: Tulsa Ramjet

They used to call them Octaroons.


42 posted on 11/20/2006 1:04:16 PM PST by ichabod1 (Democracy = Anarchy)
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To: ichabod1
They used to call them Octaroons.

An octoroon was someone who was 1/8 black and 7/8 white. Not to be confused with a quadroon, who was 1/4 black and 3/4 white. Fortunately, those names are out of date as we don't feel the need to go into such detail over a person's racial makeup

In colonial Latin America, they had hundreds of names each describing a person's particular mix of African, Spanish, and Native American blood.

47 posted on 11/20/2006 1:08:56 PM PST by LWalk18
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