[Ads-l] Antedating of "Octoroon"

[Shapiro, Fred]

octoroon (OED 1854)

1847 Hogg's Weekly Instructor 21 Aug. 412/2 (Google Books)

She was an octoroon, that is, one part of her blood out of eight was black.

NOTE: This periodical was published in Scotland, but the article was about New Orleans.


Fred Shapiro



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