quadroon

Also known as quarteron

thumb|upright|1763 casta painting by Miguel Cabrera depicting a quadroon

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Commons category: Quadroon

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thumb|upright|1763 casta painting by Miguel Cabrera depicting a quadroon

In the colonial societies of the Americas and Australia, a quadroon ( ) or quarteron (quarter-caste in the United Kingdom and Australia) was a person with one-quarter African or Aboriginal ancestry, and three-quarters European ancestry. Similar classifications were octoroon for one-eighth black and quintroon for one-sixteenth black.