Unnamed Quadroon

Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2016-07-24 12:32
Text: 
The Hamlet
Character Key: 
Unnamed Quadroon
Display Name: 
Unnamed Quadroon
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Quadroon
Race: 
MixedBlackWhite
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Convict Camp in The Hamlet (Location)
Biography: 

The owner of the logging camp where Mink works "lives openly" with a quadroon woman "most of whose teeth were gold" and who superintends the kitchen (262). (The term 'quadroon' appears in a lot of American literature before the Civil Rights movement; it was used to label a person with three white and one black grandparents.)

Individual or Group: 
Individual
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