Octoroon vs. Quadroon — What's the Difference?

A person having white ancestors except for one black great-grandparent. Used especially as a classification under certain European colonial legal systems and now considered offensive.

In the slave societies of the Americas, a quadroon or quarteron was a person with one quarter African and three quarters European ancestry. Similar classifications were octoroon for one-eighth black (Latin root octo-, means "eight") and hexadecaroon for one-sixteenth black.

Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.

A person having white ancestors except for one black grandparent. Used especially as a classification under certain European colonial legal systems and now considered offensive.

Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.

A person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.

The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.

Of or related to quadroons.

An offspring of a Quadroon and a White parent; a person who is one-eighth Black

The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.

An offspring of a Mulatto and a White parent; a person who is one-quarter Black