Lectionary Calendar
Friday, May 3rd, 2024
the Fifth Week after Easter
the Fifth Week after Easter
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Encyclopedias
Octoroon
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
Search for…
or Resource Toolbox
Additional Links
or Octaroon (from Lat. octo, eight, formed on the example of quadroon), the offspring of a quadroon and a white; a person having one-eighth negro blood. In rare instances such persons are called tercerons, as being third in descent from a negro ancestor. Occasionally persons are called octoroons XIX. 32 when the non-white element is not negro but some other coloured blood.
Copyright Statement
These files are public domain.
These files are public domain.
Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Octoroon'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/o/octoroon.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Octoroon'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/o/octoroon.html. 1910.
