quateroons

Updated: June 17, 2025

There is a numerous class at New-Orleans, called Quateroons, or Quadroons, because their colored blood has for several successive generations been intermingled with the white. The women are much distinguished for personal beauty and gracefulness of motion; and their parents frequently send them to France for the advantages of an elegant education.

Lydia Maria Francis Child - An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans