What are Quadroon balls?

Also, was it possible to ask what a Quadroon is?

A quadroon, or quarteron, was a person who had one quarter African and three-quarters European ancestry. (Or in Australia, one-quarter aboriginal).

Also, find out what an octoroon New Orleans is. noun Older Use: Offensive. A person with one-eighth of their ancestry being black, and one great-grandparent who is black; the offspring from a quadroon or a white person. These photographs were taken in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1860's to raise funds for an organization that educated emancipated slaves.

People often ask what Placage means.

Freebase. PlaASSage. PlaASSage is a recognized extralegal system where white French and Spanish men and later Creole women entered into common-law marriages. The French placer means "to place with".

What does tragic Mulatto actually mean?

The "tragic Mulatto" is an archetypical mixed race person (a "mulatto") who is sad or even suicidal because they don't fit in the "white" or "black" worlds.