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	Quadroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quadroon, octoroon and, more rarely, quintroon were historically racial categories of hypodescent used in Latin America and parts of the 19th century Southern United States, particularly Louisiana.
		Likewise, octoroon denoted a person of one eighth fl ancestry, and quintroon (quint- here implying "fifth generation") or, less commonly, hexadecaroon described a person of one sixteenth fl ancestry.
		Quadroons and octoroons of the tragic mulatta archetype were a popular subject of 19th century literature through early 20th century cinema, as in the films The Octoroon and The White Slave; or, The Octoroon, both released in 1913.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Octoroon (477 words)

	THE OCTOROON
		The Octoroon (1861-1862) is a lurid tale of race, slavery and crime, and was written to coincide with the first British performance of Dion Boucicault's drama of miscegenation in the Southern states of America.
		The Octoroon is virtually unobtainable to the modem reader as it has never been published before in book form in Britain, and the American edition omitted one chapter.
		The Octoroon will be of interest to the student and critic of Victorian literature and theatre, and to those interested in anti-slavery novels and the development of popular fiction.
	www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk /octoroon.htm (445 words)

	The Harbinger. Modern Composers. October 5, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At The Octoroon Balls from 1995 and Sweet Release from 1996 were commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center and had their premiere performances by that group.
		At The Octoroon Balls is the first piece Marsalis has written that does not include his own trumpet playing, but it is not simply the work of a jazz musician who feels he needs to prove he can write a conventional string quartet -- conventional it ain't.
		The title refers to the old New Orleans institution at which "Creole men chose Octoroon women for their mistresses," but also connotes hybridity, which in music is sometimes referred to as crossover.
	www.theharbinger.org /xviii/991005/forbus.html (391 words)

	The Octoroon Summary
		As with many melodramas that focus on a topical political or social problem of the day, The Octoroon centers upon the barbaric act of slavery in the American South.
		The rule at the time was that anyone with an eighth of a part of African American blood in them could not marry a full blooded white person.
		The melodrama centers around the virtuous and beautiful heroine, Zoe, who is, of course, the octoroon of the title.
	www.shvoong.com /books/2065-octoroon (428 words)

	Haunted New Orleans: Ghost Stories
		High on the steep gables of a Royal Street townhouse, a naked, olive-skinned ghost woman paces and trembles, but only on the most blustery of December nights.
		The Octoroon Mistress, as the apparition is known, was the courtesan of a wealthy Frenchman.
		Back in the days when New Orleans brimmed with Frenchmen and slaves, society's strictures made it all but impossible for a white man to marry a woman with even the smallest tendrils of African roots.
	www.nola.com /haunted/ghosts/octoroon.html (464 words)

	The Work of the Public Mind
		But as Bennet's editorial response indicates, The Octoroon was cursed with living in interesting times: John Brown had been hanged three days before the play opened, and on the day of its opening a a bitterly divisive New York mayoral election resulted in the election of the pro-State's Rights candidate, Fernando Wood.
		For its audience the play drew upon the new respectability theatre had gained in the preceding decade and a half largely through the agency of moral reform dramas, particularly those associated with the temperance movement.
		In all these ways then The Octoroon is profoundly indebted to more than half a century of melodramatic theatrical experiment and innovation.
	www.ags.uci.edu /~ishmael/octoroon.htm (151 words)

	Amazon.com: octoroon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Octoroon Ball by Richard L. Breen Jr.
		Octoroon by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Jennifer Carnell (Hardcover - Jul 1, 1999)
		The romantic adventures of Rosy, the octoroon,: With some account of the persecution of the southern negroes during the reconstruction period by Albert Evander Coleman (Unknown Binding - 1929)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&keywords=octoroon&page=1 (305 words)

	African American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term quadroon referred to a person of one-fourth African descent, for example, someone born to a Caucasian father and a mulatto mother.
		Someone of one-eighth African descent technically was an octoroon, although the term often was used to refer to any white person with even a hint of fl ancestry.
		Mulatto and terms with the -roon suffix persisted in a social context for a number of decades, but by the mid twentieth century, they no longer were in common use.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/African_American (8953 words)

	Museum Studies, The Art Institute's Journal
		I have seen Octoroons with skin as white as people from Northern Europe such as the Baltic countries; with blonde straight hair, blue eyes, sharp well proportioned features and extremely thin lips.
		The construction of the body is such as an elongation of the arms, a tendency toward a weak bone construction found in many of the dark purer Negroes and large fat heels are non-existant.
		Because, for Motley, little distinguished “Octoroons” from whites, he depicted women of this “racial type” as elegant and upper class, with Euro-American features and signs of wealth and privilege.
	www.artic.edu /webspaces/museumstudies/ms242/mooney6.shtml (653 words)

	OCTOROON (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The octoroon [microform] : a drama in 3 acts.
		The octoroon, or, Life in Louisiana [microform] : a play in four acts.
		The octoroon, or, Life in Louisiana : [microform] : a play in four acts.
	www-catalog.cpl.org /MARION?T=OCTOROON (59 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE OCTOROON BALL by Richard L. Breen, Jr.
		New Orleans was never quite like this, yet THE OCTOROON BALL may capture the essence of that city better than any novel of recent memory.
		Richard L. Breen, Jr., the author of this wacky ride, writes as if he attended a workshop taught by the aforementioned Philip K. Dick, then collaborated with William Kotzwinkle and Richard Brautigan, two writers who were perhaps overestimated during their lives and are grossly underestimated now.
		Ultimately, however, THE OCTOROON BALL is worth the read, and the reread, just to stretch the boundaries of what is real, and what is more real.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0595195199.asp (336 words)

	Calendar for 1861-1862
		However, after the first week, Boucicault was replaced in the role of Salem Scudder by Delman Grace for a fortnight, during which he wrote "a new last act of the drama composed by the public and edited by the author" (playbill, 9 December).
		The Octoroon was taken off at the same time, though a fresh attempt was made to show it, this time reduced to four acts, on 26 May.
		The Octoroon, reduced to four acts, was re-introduced during the last fortnight of this run.
	www.emich.edu /public/english/adelphi_calendar/m61d.htm (8676 words)

	Wynton Marsalis - Verve Records
		All are volumes of an eight-CD series, titled "Swinging Into The 21st", that is an unprecedented set of albums released in the past year featuring a remarkable scope of original compositions and standards, from jazz to classical to ballet, by composers from Jelly Roll Morton to Stravinsky to Monk, in addition to Marsalis.
		The extended septet work In This House on This Morning, which was premiered at Lincoln Center in 1983 and released on CD by Columbia in 1994, was termed "a spiritual feast" and a "masterpiece" by Ebony magazine.
		Another important Lincoln Center commission, Marsalis' first string quartet, (at the) Octoroon Balls, was premiered by the Orion String Quartet in May 1995 and was presented in conjunction with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /artist.aspx?ob=per&src=prd&aid=3593 (1539 words)

	DION BOUCICAULT
		The Octoroon was also noteworthy as the first truly serious treatment of the still devisive topic of racial discrimination in the USA.
		He rewrote the ending to The Octoroon because London audiences which wanted a happy ending for his heroine Zoe.
		To the vitality he imparts to the character of Conn the success of the piece is largely attributable.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /boucicault.htm (1465 words)

	Arizona State University____Thelma Shinn Richard
		Although as a New England daughter, wife and sister of ministers, Stowe herself would never have written a “wicked play” as Jonathan refers to stage productions in THE CONTRAST, others would turn her novel into the most produced play of all time, especially the version written by George Aiken.
		Mixed racial heritage had already become a recurrent theme in African American literature, usually referred to by later critics as the “tragic mulatto/a” theme.
		Find the line in which she describes herself as an octoroon.
	www.public.asu.edu /~attjs/ENG331/Lectures/LECTURE2.html (2346 words)

	Encyclopedia
		He is best known for his topical melodramas, among them The Poor of New York (1857).
		In the Octoroon (1859), he was the first playwright to treat fls as serious characters.
		Also highly popular were his adaptation (1865) of Rip Van Winkle and his many Irish dramas, including The Colleen Bawn (1860) and The Shaughraun (1874).
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..bo147500.a (190 words)

	octoroon
		The Octoroon (1861-1862) is a lurid tale of race, slavery and crime.
		It was the second anonymous novel written by Braddon for the lower class magazine the Halfpenny Journal; A Magazine For All Who Can Read, and was published to coincide with the first British performance of Dion Boucicault's drama of miscegenation in the Southern states of America.
		The Octoroon is virtually unobtainable to the modern reader, as it has never been published in book form in Britain and the American edition omitted one chapter.
	www.sensationpress.com /octoroon.htm (495 words)

	The Octoroon
		At the time the judge executed those free papers to his infant slave, a judgment stood recorded against him; while that was on record he had no right to make away with his property.
		I give him back the libertv he bestowed upon me; for I can never repay him the love he bore his poor Octoroon child, on whose breast his last sigh was drawn, into whose eyes he looked with the last gaze of affection.
		You killed the boy to steal this letter from the mail-bags-you stole this letter, that the money should not arrive in time to save the Octoroon; had it donc so, the lien on the estate would have ceased, and Zoe be free.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /octoroon.htm (10896 words)

	Dion Boucicault (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Barret H. Clark (Princeton 1943); The Octoroon, or Life in Louisiana, and Rip Van Winkle, in Repres.
		Dictionary of National Biography notes that his plays [are] invariably adapted from previous play or novel by another hand (viz, Octoroon taken from Reid’s Quadroon); also lists Dion Boucicault the Younger (1859-1929).
		Oxford Companion to American Literature: Irish-born dramatist and actor, achieved some success with adaptations of French drama, turned to musical interludes and melodramas, and adaptations from Dickens; The Poor of New York, a ‘superficial but graphic picture’ of the panic of 1857; his melodram.
	www.pgil-eirdata.org /html/pgil_datasets/authors/b/Boucicault,D/life.htm (1597 words)

	Mary Braddon: The Black Band
		One of Braddon's first novels, The Octoroon was serialised in the popular press before being published in book from in England and America.
		It is a powerful anti-racist melodrama, recounting the adventures of the beautiful octoroon Cora Leslie and the prejudice she faces in the Deep South of the USA.
		The new edition of The Octoroon will be published in late 1999.
	www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk /blackband.html (414 words)

	Michaelcosm \| Feature - A Tale of Two Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I was learning about tables in class and was ready to really play around with making a web page.
		For James and I, the most important thing about the Octoroon Jihad web site is what came after it.
		One of Troy's comments about the web site was, "the shit is very funny and upsets me as much as it endears me because every month michael and james neglect to put some kind of regular web effort out there, is another month i am deprived of smiles, grins, and holy shits."
	www.michaelcosm.com /sub_feat/feat_oj1.html (482 words)

	Wynton Marsalis Home
		At the Octoroon Balls is the third title in this groundbreaking series, and marks the world premiere recording of Wynton's String Quartet No.1.
		At the Octoroon Balls is inspired by Marsalis' native Crescent City -- "the old New Orleans where Creole men chose Octoroon women for their mistresses and the terribilities of race collided jubilantly with the terribilities of sex."
		At the Octoroon Balls is voluptuous, original music for strings, quintessentially American and uniquely Marsalis.
	www.sonyclassical.com /music/60979/home.html (260 words)

	Wynton Marsalis (Sony Classical / Columbia \| A Fiddler’s Tale / At the Octoroon Balls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Creole tradition, balls were held for Creole men to choose their Octoroon (one-eight Negro) mistresses.
		This is much in keeping with the tradition of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Charles Ives, using pieces of Americana in their compositions.
		At The Octoroon Balls is more Ives than Louis Armstrong, but it is all there: fiddle reels, hoe downs, jug stomps, marching bands; the Deep South, New Orleans, the Piedmont Eest Coast, Sunday morning at church.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r0899_117.htm (552 words)

	Amazon.com: The Octoroon Ball: Books: Richard L. Breen Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Meet the beautiful octoroon child-woman on the auction block, the infamous outlaw in love with her, a young Kipling in America on a secret mission, and the perfectly dead Dumaine family, all living in a luxurious brothel on a hill in New Orleans that doesn't exist.
		Then take a ride with Tolstoy, Gauguin, and a Russian circus giant, members of the New James Gang, as they rob the Bank of New Orleans with a magical brush stroke.
		Invigorating ski jaunts down the ice mountains of Pluto, torrid love sessions under Big Ben, and a supernatural electrical storm that disrupts the Octoroon Ball are just a few of the defining moments necessary for these people to come in touch with the bookmarks of their souls, and the strangely simple meaning of life itself.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595195199?v=glance (444 words)

	PAL: Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)
		Degen, John A. "How to End The Octoroon." Educational Theatre Journal 27 (1975): 170-78.
		"Caught in the 'Eye of the Eternal': Justice, Race, and the Camera, from The Octoroon to Rodney King." Theatre Journal 45.3 (Oct 1993 Oct): 333-48.
		PR4161.B2 Z7 Richardson, Gary A. "Boucicault's The Octoroon and American Law." Theatre Journal 34.2 (May 1982): 155-164.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap8/boucicault.html (391 words)

	Seasonal Summary for 1861-1862
		Sunnyside (110) in Octoroon (18 Nov 1861 - 21 Jun 1862); Mr.
		Claiborne (110) in Octoroon (18 Nov 1861 - 21 Jun 1862); Seraphina (110) in Octoroon (18 Nov 1861 - 21 Jun 1862); Marion Graeme (24) in Phantom (21 Apr 1862 - 23 May 1862); Flora Fisher (6) in That Blessed Baby (18 Aug 1862 - 23 Aug 1862)
		Peyton (110) in Octoroon (18 Nov 1861 - 21 Jun 1862); Lady Creamley Stilton (65) in Pretty Horsebreaker (18 Nov 1861 - 6 Sep 1862); Mrs.
	www.emich.edu /public/english/adelphi_calendar/m61s.htm (9215 words)

	MixedFolks.com - Names for MixedFolks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		2.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon.
		Of, for, or consisting of members of two races or combining two races.
		The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon (so called in the West Indies).
	www.mixedfolks.com /names.htm (1441 words)

	All Songs / Tracks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At the Octoroon Balls - String Quartet No. 1, A Fiddler's Tale Suite - Wynton Marsalis (1999)
		At the Octoroon Balls - String Quartet No. 1 - Mating Calls and Delta Rhythms
		At the Octoroon Balls - String Quartet No. 1 - Rampart St. Row House Rag
	www.worldjazz.ch /CDs/Tracks/genre5.html (321 words)

	Silent Era : PSFL : The Octoroon (1913)
		Silent Era : PSFL : The Octoroon (1913)
		A growing source of silent era film information.
		Silent Era Home Page > PSFL > The Octoroon (1913)
	www.silentera.com /PSFL/data/O/Octoroon1913.html (80 words)

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