... its residents, namely it's slaves. During the time of its premiere, The Octoroon, inspired conversations about the abolition of slavery as well as the overall mistreatment of the African Americans. Derived from the Spanish language, the word 'octoroon' is defined as one who is 1/8th black. Zoe Peyton, "The Octoroon", is the supposedly "freed" biological daughter ... all else, and must therefore go down to a tragic end. (Brown, Negro Poetry and..) She is a woman who has all the social graces that come along with being a middle-class or upper-class white woman and yet Zoe is none...

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• Grade Level: High School

... never arrived in the colonies with the thought that slavery was not a natural human institution, or that blacks were equal to them and deserving of rights. The racist views that derived from European's predisposed bias against blacks were a justification the race-based slavery that existed in North American beginning in the 17th century. Whites had a negative proclivity towards blacks in pre ... . One reason was that the white legislature in the colonies wanted to stress to those white indentured servants, who began to be unified with blacks, that they were higher in class status than bl...

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