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Historical racial classification
classifications were Octoroon for one-eighth Black and Quintroon for one-sixteenth Black. Governments of the time sometimes incorporated the terms in law, defining
Quadroon
1859 play by Dion Boucicault
The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Extremely popular, the play was kept running
The_Octoroon
2014 play, an adaptation of The Octoroon
An Octoroon is a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon, which premiered in 1859. Jacobs-Jenkins
An_Octoroon
American actress
reprised her leading role as Zoe in An Octoroon at Soho Repertory Theatre An Octoroon utilized the plot of The Octoroon, an 1859 melodrama, but turned it into
Amber_Gray
The Haunting of the Octoroon Mistress is a ghost tale about the haunting of a house on 734 Royal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The haunting of the
Haunting of the Octoroon Mistress
Haunting_of_the_Octoroon_Mistress
American playwright (born 1984)
include An Octoroon and The Comeuppance. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016. Jacobs-Jenkins was born in Washington, DC, and raised in the Takoma neighborhood
Branden_Jacobs-Jenkins
British actress (born 1996)
the play An Octoroon at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. She was nominated for the 2017 Offie for Best Supporting Female in a Play (An Octoroon)
Vivian_Oparah
American musician and singer-songwriter
her own label, Octoroon Biography, Putumayo released a collection of her songs in 1995. Her 2003 album Welcome to Pagan Place included the controversial[citation
Laura_Love
Stereotypical fictional character in 19th and 20th century American literature
portrayals reflect the changing ways cinema engages with themes of race, identity, and belonging in the American South. The Octoroon (Life in Louisiana)
Tragic_mulatto
Plot archetype where a protagonist's desires are fulfilled
Paradise. The Octoroon, an 1859 anti-slavery play by Dion Boucicault, focuses on the tragic love between the white George Peyton and the Octoroon girl Zoe
Happy_ending
British actor
work in theatre include the roles of Oswald in a 2016 Ghosts, BJJ in An Octoroon in 2017 and Leo in White Noise in 2021. The newspaper i said that "Nwosu
Ken_Nwosu
American enslaved woman married to Vice President Richard Johnson (c. 1790–1833)
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
Julia_Chinn
American author and enslaved person
slave narrative, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life, was published in 1861. The narrative, written by abolitionist
Louisa_Picquet
1911 Australian film
The Octoroon is an Australian film directed by George Young based on a popular play by Dion Boucicault which had recently enjoyed a popular run in Australia
The_Octoroon_(1912_film)
American vaudeville impresario
24, 1902) was an American vaudeville impresario who was known for his Octoroons and Oriental America shows. These had their roots in traditional minstrel
John_William_Isham
"Bernice, The Octoroon". Found in the Women's Era writings of 1894, Burgess-Ware contributed several pieces of work on nursing including: "The Nursing of
Marie_Louise_Burgess-Ware
British actress
school, Evans made her professional stage debut in the 2018 National Theatre production of An Octoroon with Ken Nwosu, Kevin Trainor, Vivian Oparah, and
Iola_Evans
American brothel madam (c. 1868 – 1931)
White who is noted as being the handsomest octoroon in America. Her mansion possesses some of the most costly oil paintings in the southern country, her mirror
Lulu_White
1909 film by Sidney Olcott
The Octoroon is a lost 1909 American silent film produced by Kalem Company and directed by Sidney Olcott, shot in Florida. It was part of Kalem's Great
The_Octoroon_(1909_film)
Racial classification
in English, the word is mulatta (Spanish: mulata). The use of this term began in areas that later became the United States shortly after the Atlantic slave
Mulatto
American painter (1891–1981)
between octoroon women and white women, depicting octoroon women with material representations of status and European features. It appears that the message
Archibald_Motley
Mixed race children of slave women and white men, often via rape
six children. Julia Chinn, an enslaved octoroon who was the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States, Richard Mentor Johnson.
Children_of_the_plantation
American song
the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the
Jimmy_Crack_Corn
American brothel madam
closure in 1917, Piazza worked as a madam and specialized in providing octoroon women for her clients; she herself was mixed-race. Little is known about
Willie_Piazza
Slave trade between Africa and the West
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. This trade
Atlantic_slave_trade
Vice President of the United States from 1837 to 1841
relationship with Julia Chinn, a mixed-race slave who was classified as octoroon (or seven-eighths white). Unlike other upper-class planters and leaders
Richard_Mentor_Johnson
Irish actor
M'Closky in the 2022 Abbey Theatre production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' stage adaptation of An Octoroon. He also appeared in Good Sex at the Dublin Theatre
Patrick_Martins
American dramatist
credits include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. She has performed in regional and off-Broadway productions of An Octoroon, Bootycandy and
Jocelyn_Bioh
The legal institution of chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States from
Slavery_in_the_United_States
British actress
Ravenhill's adaptation of the Dion Boucicault play, The Octoroon, and appearing in Neil Gaiman's podcast series, The Sandman. She starred as Emily McCoy in Tom
Amaka_Okafor
Former theatre in Manhattan, New York
sensation of the season": Everybody talks about the Octoroon, [sic] wonders about the Octoroon, goes to see the Octoroon; and the "Octoroon" thus becomes
Winter_Garden_Theatre_(1850)
American actress
Archived November 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine "Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon". October 7, 2015. "July 18 WTFestival: Off the Main Road - CNY Café Momus"
Mary_Wiseman_(actress)
1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War". Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female
Uncle_Tom's_Cabin
Irish actor and dramatist (1820–1890)
(1852) The Vampire (1852) Louis XI (1855) The Phantom (1856) The Poor of New York (1857) The Octoroon or Life in Louisiana (1859) The Colleen Bawn or The Brides
Dion_Boucicault
Canadian actress and singer
in 2017. After appearing in the ensemble of two productions, Sears appeared as Zoe in the Canadian premiere of An Octoroon, which played between July 16
Vanessa_Sears
Movement to end slavery
or the abolitionist movement, is the political movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals around the world. It gained momentum in the western
Abolitionism
Trinidadians and Tobagonians of African descent
and Indian descent. During the colonial era, terms such as Mulatto, Creole, Dougla, Zambo, Maroon, Pardo, Quadroon, Octoroon, and Hexadecaroon (Quintroon)
Afro–Trinidadians and Tobagonians
Afro–Trinidadians_and_Tobagonians
American actress (born 1985)
the Fourth Turning for which she received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination, and an Obie Award. She also starred in other plays including An Octoroon
Zoë_Winters
Self-identification collected by the US census
marked the beginning of the term "race" in the questionnaires. Enumerators were instructed to write "White", "Black", "Mulatto", "Quadroon", "Octoroon", "Chinese"
Race and ethnicity in the United States census
Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_census
British novelist and tutor (1818–1883)
entitled The Octoroon (1859) by Dion Boucicault and produced in New York. While Reid's novels have become almost completely forgotten in the Anglosphere
Thomas_Mayne_Reid
Play by Dion Boucicault
the new nation and wrote about it. As a result of this, in 1859 he wrote, produced, and acted in a very famous antislavery play called The Octoroon (Rowell
The_Colleen_Bawn
Son of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (1808–1856)
from the Mountain: The Oral History of the Hemings Family, Perrysburg, OH: Lesher Printers, Inc., 1990, pp. 89–96 Judge Sibley, "Beautiful Octoroon: Miss
Eston_Hemings
2008 novel by Amitav Ghosh
Smoke. The main characters include Deeti, an ordinary village woman, an "octoroon" American sailor named Zachary Reid, an Indian rajah / zamindar called
Sea_of_Poppies
Slaves in the United States were often subjected to sexual abuse and rape, the denial of education, and punishments like whippings. Families were often
Treatment of slaves in the United States
Treatment_of_slaves_in_the_United_States
British director
direction of In the Blood, writing that it was directed with "a dangerously relaxing sense of humor". He described her direction of Octoroon as having "great
Sarah_Benson
American enslaved man
octoroon. Hanks' letter in Harper's Weekly described them as "perfectly white", "very fair", "of unmixed white race", which contrasted them with the three
Wilson_Chinn
British sculptor
Shore and The Octoroon, have commented that " While white male sculptors such as John Bell and Charles Cordier intended to bring the pathos of the institution
John_Bell_(sculptor)
1980s trilogy of novels by John Jakes
targets the Mains and Hazards for complete destruction, while Orry Main's widow Madeline, previously revealed to be an octoroon, becomes a target of the newly
North_and_South_(trilogy)
Daughter of Thomas Jefferson (1801-died after 1822)
in ancestry, called octoroons in the terminology of the time. Legally, Hemings and her siblings were white under Virginia law at the time, even though they
Harriet_Hemings
Topics referred to by the same term
Church Rangoon (2017 Hindi film) Rangoon (2017 Tamil film) Octoroon Rangoon, a track in the music of Homestuck Rangoon Oil Company, East India Company
Rangoon_(disambiguation)
Ownership of people as property
compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavement is the placement of a person
Slavery
American actor and singer (born 1977)
(July 26, 2017). "The Role of Race in Race Roles: Amir Talai in An Octoroon". Iman Sadri (September 4, 2018). "Q+A with Amir Talai : The Most Prolific Iranian
Amir_Talai
Literature written in or related to the United States
Bannister's Putnam, the Iron Son of '76, Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana, and Cornelius Mathews's Witchcraft; or, the Martyrs of Salem
American_literature
American abolitionist (1822–1913)
and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War
Harriet_Tubman
American actress
1906 as a performer in The Price of Money, and endured until March 1929. Her final show was The Octoroon, in which she played the character of Zoe. In November
Inez_Plummer
1789 autobiography of Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, is the autobiography of Olaudah
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The_Interesting_Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Olaudah_Equiano
American actress
Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including The Merchant of Venice, Come and Gone, The Crucible, An Octoroon, and Hurt Village. On television, she guest-starred
Marsha_Stephanie_Blake
Type of biracial person
Aboriginality (such as "part-aborigine", "full-blood", "quarter-caste", "octoroon", "mulatto", or "hybrid") are defunct descriptors that are regarded as
Half-caste
Topics referred to by the same term
an octoroon, a person of 1/8 African and 7/8 European ancestry Albina Albine Albanianism This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title
Albino_(disambiguation)
American film, stage and television actor (1930–2026)
to Conquer, Peer Gynt, The Great God Brown and The Octoroon. He also acted at the Arena Stage Company from 1961 to 1964, and the American Conservatory
Ray_Reinhardt
Theater in Washington, D.C.
the theater would reopen on July 10, 1865, with a performance of The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana. It was advertised that "the Theatre is in the same
Ford's_Theatre
Novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens
white Americans the plight of the children of the plantation: the offspring of black slave women and their white masters, who were legally the property of
Queen: The Story of an American Family
Queen:_The_Story_of_an_American_Family
British theatre award
The Offies, formally called The Off West End Theatre Awards, is an annual awards ceremony launched in 2010 by OffWestEnd to recognise and celebrate excellence
The_Offies
American abolitionist propaganda using white-looking slaves
slaves traveled from New Orleans to the North. Of these, four children appeared to be white or octoroon. According to the Harper's Weekly article, they were
White_slave_propaganda
The history of slavery spans many different cultures, tribes, nationalities and religions from ancient periods to the present day. Likewise, its victims
History_of_slavery
Series of supernatural horror novels by Anne Rice
featuring the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. In the crossover novels, former Talamasca leader David Talbot seeks out Merrick Mayfair, an octoroon descendant
Lives_of_the_Mayfair_Witches
American fugitive slaves and abolitionists
among the most famous fugitive slaves in the United States. Abolitionists featured them in public lectures to gain support in the struggle to end the institution
Ellen_and_William_Craft
American lawyer, judge, and writer (1814–1893)
history, Early History of the Maumee Valley (1858); an anti-slavery novel, Adela, the Octoroon (1860); and Bacon and Shakespeare in the Sonnets (1887). He was
Hezekiah_Lord_Hosmer_(judge)
American educator, author, orator and adviser (1856–1915)
orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite. Born into slavery
Booker_T._Washington
American freed slave (1805–1877)
their light skin and appearance (they were 7/8 European or octoroon), both identified with the white community and probably changed their names. After Beverley
Madison_Hemings
Slavery existed in the United States from its inception in 1619 to its abolition with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
List of last survivors of American slavery
List_of_last_survivors_of_American_slavery
In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end chattel slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American
Abolitionism in the United States
Abolitionism_in_the_United_States
Book by Zora Neale Hurston
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” is a non-fiction novel written by acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston centers the work around Oluale
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Barracoon:_The_Story_of_the_Last_"Black_Cargo"
1911 Australian film
film from the Australian Film Syndicate who also made The Octoroon. It is a lost film. It was based on a 1910 story by Arthur Wright about the fictitious
Black_Talbot
Free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders
abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born American of mixed race from New York, he was the son of a freed slave
Solomon_Northup
Thoroughfare in New Orleans, United States
curve in the Mississippi River. Brennan's Haunting of the Octoroon Mistress Downtown New Orleans The Historic New Orleans Collection National Register of
Royal_Street,_New_Orleans
1987 novel by Toni Morrison
novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati
Beloved_(novel)
1861 autobiography by Harriet Jacobs
published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book documents Jacobs' life as a slave and
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents_in_the_Life_of_a_Slave_Girl
1783 British document
The Book of Negroes is a document created by Brigadier General Samuel Birch, under the direction of Sir Guy Carleton, that records names and descriptions
Book_of_Negroes
1971 Italian mondo film by Franco Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti
Ortolani. Based on true events, the filmmakers explore antebellum America, using period documents to examine in graphic detail the racist ideology and degrading
Goodbye_Uncle_Tom
2013 film directed by Steve McQueen
Ray (November 3, 2013). "Weekend Report: 'Ender' Wins Box Office 'Game,' 'Thor' Mighty Overseas". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 3, 2013. Todd Spangler
12_Years_a_Slave_(film)
Grouping by physical or social qualities
categories, such as mulatto and octoroon. The criteria for membership in these races diverged in the late 19th century. During the Reconstruction era, increasing
Race_(human_categorization)
American politician (1777–1852)
sent to Louisiana to be sold. While in Washington, D.C., Clay acquired an octoroon to serve as concubine. Phoebe Moore, age 16, was purchased by Henry Clay
Henry_Clay
Islamic scholar, enslaved in the United States
enslaved and transported to the United States in 1807 during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Remaining enslaved for the remainder of his life, he wrote
Omar_ibn_Said
African American soldier in the American Revolutionary War (1753–1868)
American preacher and soldier who served during the American Revolutionary War. Born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1753, Robinson later
James Robinson (soldier, born 1753)
James_Robinson_(soldier,_born_1753)
1976 novel by Alex Haley
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century Mandinka, captured as an
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots:_The_Saga_of_an_American_Family
American actor
plays in which Sullivan appeared included Hamlet (1961), The Octoroon (1961), The Plough and the Stars (1960), She Stoops to Conquer (1960), Henry IV, Part
Elliott_Sullivan
Ramírez (1790–1856), rebel soldier and heroine of the Venezuelan War of Independence. Julia Chinn, an octoroon enslaved woman and common-law wife of Richard
List_of_slaves
2016 novel by Colson Whitehead
the story of Cora, a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia plantation by following the Underground
The Underground Railroad (novel)
The_Underground_Railroad_(novel)
2003 novel by Edward P. Jones
The Known World is a 2003 historical novel by Edward P. Jones. Set in Virginia during the antebellum era, it examines the issues regarding the ownership
The_Known_World
Slavery by type
worked, and often lived, in the house of the slave-owner, performing domestic labor. House slaves performed essentially the same duties as all domestic
House_slave
1892–1894 conflict between France and Dahomey
entrusted the war effort against Dahomey to Alfred-Amédée Dodds, an octoroon colonel of the Troupes de marine from Senegal. Colonel Dodds arrived with a force
Second_Franco-Dahomean_War
American actor
he began his career as a child actor in the Broadway productions of The Body Beautiful (1958) and The Octoroon (1961). In his late teens he portrayed Five
Alan_Weeks_(actor)
History of efforts to improve human genetic quality
the increasing numbers of mixed-descent children in Australia, labeled as "half-castes" (or alternatively "crossbreeds", "quadroons", and "octoroons")
History_of_eugenics
Title character of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The character was seen in the Victorian era as a ground-breaking
Uncle_Tom
American slave, later abolitionist speaker and showman
June 15, 1897) was an enslaved man from Virginia who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to
Henry_Box_Brown
African American enslaved woman, written about in 12 Years a Slave
is the source for most of the information about her. There have been two adaptations of the book in film: Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984), and the better
Patsey
Jamaica to the "free Quadroon" Mary Gauntlett and the slave owner Charles Rowe, Sr., making him an "Octoroon" in the parlance of the time. The sister of
Nix_family
Australian actress and theatre director (born 1985)
Australian actress and stage director, known for her debut film role in The Sapphires (2012), as well as many stage and television performances. Sebbens
Shari_Sebbens
Theory of American immigrant integration
The becoming white thesis or becoming white narrative is a historical narrative in the United States that certain non-Anglo-Saxon and non-Protestant immigrant
Becoming_white_thesis
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