Mullato, Quadroon or Octoroon? (1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 black)
Pretty Octoroons brought the highest prices in the slave markets.
In the 1950s in Dallas and elsewhere, they were called High Yellows because of their light colored skin tone.
I have no idea. I only know that I have a smidgen of African ancestry from the Bantu tribe who were often captured and sold as slaves. I suspect that my dear great grandmother claimed Native American ancestry to avoid the stigma of being mulatto. But I don’t really know.