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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 707 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUADROON (a corruption of quarteroon, Span. cuarteron, from cuarto, See also:Lat. quartos, See also:fourth)  , strictly a See also:person having one-See also:fourth See also:negro See also:blood, the offspring of a See also:mulatto and a See also:white . The See also:children of a mulatto and a negro are called in See also:America zambos or sambos (possibly from Span. zambro, See also:Lat. scambus, See also:bow-legged), and the use of Sambo as a proper name for a See also:black servant may have thus originated .

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