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 Übersetzung für 'octoroon' von Englisch nach Deutsch
NOUN   octoroon | octoroons
octoroon [also "octaroon"] [pej.] [dated][jd., der zu einem Achtel schwarzer Herkunft ist]
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Anwendungsbeispiele Englisch
  • – July 1833) was an American plantation manager and enslaved woman of "mixed-race" (an "octoroon" of seven-eighths European and one-eighth African ancestry), who was the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States, Richard Mentor Johnson.
  • In Motley's paintings, he made little distinction between octoroon women and white women, depicting octoroon women with material representations of status and European features.
  • Additionally, efforts to track mixing between census racial groups led to a proliferation of categories (such as mulatto and octoroon) and "blood quantum" distinctions that became increasingly untethered from self-reported ancestry.
  • Mahogany Hall was an octoroon hall, employing prostitutes of mixed races.
  • After his father died, Richard Johnson inherited Julia Chinn, an octoroon mixed-race woman (seven-eighths European and one-eighth African in ancestry), who was born into slavery around 1790.

  • The female "tragic octoroon" was a stock character of abolitionist literature: a light-skinned woman, raised in her father's household as though she were white, until his bankruptcy or death has her reduced to a menial position and sold.
  • Dumas, born in 1837, was the son of plantation owner Joseph Dumas and was an octoroon from his mother's side.
  • The haunting of the Octoroon House is founded on nineteenth-century cultural etiquette surrounding race in New Orleans.
  • Among the narrower arguments was that Revels was of primarily European ancestry (an "octoroon") and that the Dred Scott decision should be interpreted as applying only to those blacks who were of totally African ancestry.
  • Similar classifications were octoroon for one-eighth black (Latin root "octo-", means "eight") and quintroon for one-sixteenth black.

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