A light complexion is accompanied with to a Terceron, who is called by some a red or fair hair, a dark one with black hair, Morisco, or Mestize.
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Mestize
//mɛsˈtiːz//
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A Mestize therefore in our islands is, I suppose, the Quinteron of the Spaniards.
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A Black Hamite and a Zamba - A White Man and a Mulatto – An Asiatic Indian and a European - American Mestize and a European Carribean and Zambi - Mestize and a Native American - Mulatto and a Carribean - Terceroon and a White Man […]
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Nonetheless, the concept of a 'mestize' being one-half American, one-fourth European, and one-fourth African was probably not borrowed from Spanish usage. It may reflect the fact that Americans in Jamaica were[…]
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