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As did the brilliant frames of An Octaroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

"My mother," Ernest Carvalho said quietly; and I took the proffered hand with a warmth that must have really surprised the slave-born octaroon.

It was a letter full of wicked reproaches about our octaroon blood, and it broke his heart with the shock of its heartlessness.

Yes, I do mean it, miss," he answered; "an octaroon slave girl, and Carvalho's her son by old Jacob Carvalho, a Jew merchant at the back of the island, who was fool enough to go and actually marry her.

I know his mother when she was a slave of your grandfather's," she said; "an upstanding proud octaroon girl, who thought herself too good for her place because she was nearly a white woman.