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Quintroon

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Noun
  1. 1
    The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black. dated
  2. 2
    The offspring of a mustiphini (1/16 black) and a white person: 1/32 black. dated

    "Some authors, who have treated on the West Indies, do not count so far; but the writer of this, has seen more than one family of Quintroons by Mustiphini mothers in a state of slavery; which of course, would not have been the case, had they been those persons called white by law."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quinterón (“offspring of a quadroon and a white person”).

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