quintoon
quintoon is the alternative form of quintroon.
Meaning of quintroon
Noun
quintroon (plural quintroons)
- The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.
- The offspring of a mustiphini (1/16 black) and a white person: 1/32 black.
- Some authors, who have treated on the West Indies, do not count so far; but the writer of this, has seen more than one family of Quintroons by Mustiphini mothers in a state of slavery; which of course, would not have been the case, had they been those persons called white by law.1828, Marly, Or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica, page 183
Forms of quintoon
| plural | quintoons |
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Questions about quintoon
- What is quintoon the alternative form of?
- Quintoon is the alternative form of quintroon.
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