"Quadroon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... collections with him,—parrots and butterflies, drawings on the backs of old letters, and journals kept on bones and cartridges. But he had left behind him a dearer treasure; for there runs through all his eccentric narrative a single thread of pure romance, in his love for his beautiful quadroon ...
— Black Rebellion - Five Slave Revolts • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... exigency, the "Quadroon Slave" has been produced. It may be classed as an argumentative drama; carried on with that stage logic which always makes the heroine get the best of it. The emancipation side of the question is supported by Julie, ably backed by Vincent St. George, but opposed by Alfred Pelham; ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... black, only a quarter—what they call a quadroon in the West Indies. But, thank Heaven! ...
— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat
... These men were darker than Eugene, but they differed from him in this, that while he is a man of color, they were not. For in America the man of Aryan blood, however dark he may be, is always "off" color, while the lightest-hued quadroon is always on it. Which is not the only paradox connected with the descendants of Africans of ...
— The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland |
