- a
person with one-sixteenth
African ancestry. The
terms quintroon or
hexadecaroon were also used. In the
French Antilles, the
following terms were used...
- Mulatto, Creole, Dougla, Zambo, Maroon, Pardo, Quadroon, Octoroon, and
Hexadecaroon (Quintroon) were used to
classify people based on
proportions of African...
-
children who were
deemed "mulattos", "quadroons", "octoroons", or "
hexadecaroons"
based on
their percentage of "black blood".
Although these mixed-race...
