Donald Harris is a prominent economics professor and the father of Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. He has had harsh words about his daughter’s comments on the ...

When Édouard Manet debuted his painting Olympia in 1865, critics were shocked by a nude who looked like “the Queen of Hearts ...

The first census in 1790 gave just three choices: free white male, free white female or slave. In 1890, the census included categories for octoroon and quadroon to measure those of one-eighth and ...

The wrath of the devil-worshipers and then — the Quadroon Ball, graceful, gay at first, then bloody, riotous. M. Brusard and the lover from over the mountains are killed. Only Mugette is left ...

T71/887: claim from Charles Bean and John Lane, sequestrators of the property of G. Timmerman esq. Counterclaims included the Baillies, as assignees of a mortgage for £10,000.

Baptised in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, 03/12/1817, "aged 13 months, daughter of William Gunter a white person,, and Mary Morrison a free quadroon woman." At some point between 1826 and 1829, four enslaved ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – “Race” is America’s four-letter word that everyone knows but would rather ignore – until it is time for demographic grouping, but who or what determines ...

More than 60 terms, including mulato, octaroon, and quadroon, have evolved throughout the state’s history to describe mixed-race people and to sort out the classes of free and enslaved people of ...