{"id":33144,"date":"2013-08-24T23:16:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T23:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33144"},"modified":"2015-06-06T01:55:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T01:55:09","slug":"who-will-dare-say-that-the-olive-colored-octoroons-and-quadroons-the-bright-mulattoes-the-heiresses-of-wealthy-men-of-mixed-blood-will-not-be-sought-in-the-next-century-by-impecunious-thriftless-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33144","title":{"rendered":"Who will dare say that the olive colored octoroons and quadroons, the bright mulattoes, the heiresses of wealthy-men of mixed blood, will not be sought in the next century by impecunious, thriftless and idle young men of the white race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe newspapers recently reported that the private secretary to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Henderson_Blount\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Blount<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(U.S._state)\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia<\/a>, representing the United States in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaiian Islands<\/a>, would shortly marry the daughter of a rich Chinaman of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honolulu\" target=\"_blank\">Honolulu<\/a>. This educated young gentleman and of social standing seeks an alliance with an ex-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coolie\" target=\"_blank\">coolie<\/a>\u2014a pig eyed pagan. Who will dare say that the olive colored <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1146\" target=\"_blank\">octoroons<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1144\" target=\"_blank\">quadroons<\/a>, the bright <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulattoes<\/a>, the heiresses of wealthy-men of mixed blood, will not be sought in the next century by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/impecuniousness\" target=\"_blank\">impecunious<\/a>, thriftless and idle young men of the white race? The negro maidens are seen at certain colleges for women of high degree in the North. Whereunto will this grow?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=33129\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Race Question<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Brooklyn Daily Eagle<\/em>, (July 25, 1893), page 2, column 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe newspapers recently reported that the private secretary to Mr. Blount of Georgia, representing the United States in the Hawaiian Islands, would shortly marry the daughter of a rich Chinaman of Honolulu. This educated young gentleman and of social standing seeks an alliance with an ex-coolie\u2014a pig eyed pagan. Who will dare say that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13162,13161],"class_list":["post-33144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-brooklyn-daily-eagle","tag-the-brooklyn-daily-eagle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}