(East) Texas "geechee" redux
Mullins, Bill
Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Fri Sep 16 04:49:03 UTC 2005
>we get the
>followibng list of these sort boxes:
>SACATRO - Negro & Griffe - 87.5 Black blood
>GRIFFE - Negro & Mulatto - 75% Black blood
>MARABON - Mulatto & Griffe - 62.5 Black blood
>MULATTO - Negro & White - 50 % Black Blood
>OS ROUGE - Negro & Indian - 50 % Black blood
>TIERCERON - Mulatto & Quadroon - 37.5 Black blood
>QUADROON - White & Mullatto - 25% Black blood
>OCTAROON - White & Quadroon - 12.5% Black blood
Another version of this table is in:
Title: New Englander and Yale review. / Volume 14, Issue 54
Publisher: W. L. Kingsley etc. Publication Date: May 1856
City: New Haven
on page 293 (available at Cornell's "Making of America" site; search for "griffe".)
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