Translation for '
quadroon' from English to Bulgarian
| NOUN | a quadroon | quadroons |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- As both a quadroon and Métis, he was famed in the African diaspora at the beginning of the 20th century as an example of African leadership.
- Pétion was born "Anne Alexandre Sabès" in Port-au-Prince to Pascal Sabès, a wealthy French father and Ursula, a free mulatto woman, which made him a "quadroon" (a quarter African ancestry).
- His opponent this time was Denis Prieur, the Jacksonian Mayor of New Orleans who lived openly with his quadroon mistress.
- In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry.
- The quadroon girls and Marietta leave to prepare for the wedding.
- A quadroon's mother usually negotiated with an admirer the compensation that would be received for having the woman as his mistress.
- David Anderson is a quadroon, of mixed European and Aboriginal ancestry.
- Eric Foner documented him as a French speaking "quadroon" born to a family of jewelers.
- Described as a quadroon in a contemporary newspaper report, he was educated by missionaries.
- The Mason Street schoolhouse was the first public school to be built in San Diego County, of mixed racial origin, or quadroon.
- She was a comely quadroon with Caucasian features and a skin of light-gold tint...with Irish eyes."
- In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one quarter African/Aboriginal and three quarters European ancestry.
- Considered to be the greatest Brazilian writer and the first writer to be inducted into the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Machado de Assis was a mulatto (more specifically, a quadroon) whose grandparents were slaves.
- It was based on the life of Thomas Jefferson's quadroon slave of that name; she was a much-younger half-sister to his late wife and was rumored to have been his concubine for years.
- However, Médéric-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry, in his three-volume work on the colony, describes Marabous as the product of the union of a black and a quadroon; he says nothing concerning East Indians.
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