Like everything else, jealousy and rivalry existed among the quadroons and octoroons who competed with white women for their men. |
Mulattoes and Quadroons are almost as liable to them in Yellow Fever as white people, and quite a number have died of hemorrhages this year. |
These descendants of mixtures between Blacks and whites dating back to slave days were once called mulattoes, quadroons or octoroons, depending on their degree of whiteness. |