Octoroon

"Octoroon" -- but still interesting in its way to those who have a penchant for that grotesque side of London life where the sublime and the ridiculous sometimes blend so curiously.

Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869

"Octoroon," and what an impossible yellowback it was!

The Delicious Vice Young Ewing Allison 1892

Octoroon and quadroon were dropped in favor of a catch-all mulatto category, and a category called “other” was introduced.

The Social Construction of Our Ever Changing Racial Categories 2006

T.C. DeLeon, whose "Rock or the Rye," a clever parody of Amelie Rives, was a decided success, has added "Juny" to the list of his novels; the scene changing from a moonshiner's camp to New York, with the heroine a beautiful Octoroon girl.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind, even Zoe, "The Octoroon," or any other woman or man in whose veins courses the blood of Ham four times diluted, knows that I mean it was not that glory-hallelujah variety of cunning or delusion, compounded of laziness and catalepsy, which is popular among the shouting, shirt-tearing sects of plantation darkies, who "git relijin" and fits twelve times a year.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

"The Octoroon" shows a fine feeling for romance as do all of the other pictures of Fuller that have been publicly visible, but it is romance obsessed with monotone.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

In this book the story of an Octoroon family is put forth in all the pathos and tragedy that is the lot of so many Negroes who belong wholly to neither race.

Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp

Louisiana girl and her Octoroon mother are no less clean cut and graphic.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

When we consider the fact that many white newspaper men have "licked the dust" in the Southland because they dared to emerge from the trend of popular thought and opinion, the Spartan who without a tremor held his hand into the flames until it had burned away was not more a subject of supreme admiration than the little Octoroon editor of the _Wilmington

Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne

Saturday they went down town together, and "Zoe, the Octoroon Girl," was on for matinee.

The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith