{"id":44282,"date":"2015-11-27T23:55:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T23:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44282"},"modified":"2015-11-27T23:55:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T23:55:23","slug":"the-octoroon-a-tragic-mulatto-tale-of-the-old-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44282","title":{"rendered":"The Octoroon, a Tragic Mulatto Tale of the Old South"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Octoroon<\/a><\/strong>, a Tragic Mulatto Tale of the Old South<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Jubilo! The Emancipation Century<\/a>
\n2011-01-23<\/p>\n

Alan Skerrett, Jr<\/strong>, Editor
\nWashington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Octoroon<\/a><\/em> is a tragic mulatto<\/a> play by Irish playwright and actor Dion Boucicault<\/a>. It opened on Broadway<\/a> in 1859, just a few years before the American Civil War<\/a>. The play was based on Mayne Reid\u2019s<\/a> novel, The Quadroon<\/em><\/a>, and the incidents relating to the murder of the slave in Albany Fonblanque\u2019s<\/a> novel, The Filibuster<\/em>…<\/p>\n

…The play centers around its heroine Zoe, a Louisiana<\/a> octoroon<\/a> in the pre-Civil War era. An octoroon is a person who has one biracial grandparent, while the other three grandparents are white. An octoroon is the child of a white parent and a quadroon<\/a> parent. A quadroon is the child of a white parent and a biracial parent.<\/p>\n

Octoroons are very often light enough to appear white. However, under the era\u2019s one-drop rule<\/a>, they were considered black. Additionally, any child born to a slave was automatically considered a slave. So, an octoroon born to a quadroon mother, where the quadroon mother was born to a biracial slave mother, was herself a slave…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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