Octoroon
Octoroon noun - An offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black.
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Quadroon
Quadroon noun - An offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black.
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In Fevre Dream, a man who procures beautiful slave women for vampires to feed on talks about his taste for quadroon and octoroon girls.
Source: But Not Too Black
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