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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,
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Lat. quartos,
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fourth)  , strictly a
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person having one-
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fourth
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negro
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blood, the offspring of a
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mulatto and a
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white . The
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children of a mulatto and a negro are called in
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America zambos or sambos (possibly from Span. zambro,
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Lat. scambus,
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bow-legged), and the use of Sambo as a proper name for a
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black servant may have thus originated .

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