Quadroon
（重定向自Quarteroon）
![Three generations in the same familyThomas-Alexandre Dumas: mulattoAlexandre Dumas, père: quadroonAlexandre Dumas, fils: octoroon](/Images/godic/202502/05/Alexande_Dumad_-detail1719.PNG")
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![The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, 1899, by Charles W. Chesnutt](/Images/godic/202502/05/Wife_of_His_Youth_and_Other_Stories_of_the_Color_Line1720.jpg")
Quadroon, and the associated words quarteron, octoroon and quintroon are terms that, historically, were applied to define the ancestry of people of mixed-race, generally of African and European ancestry in the slave societies of the Americas, but also, within Australia, to those of Aboriginal and European ancestry.