An Octoroon is a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon, which premiered in 1859. Jacobs-Jenkins...

The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Extremely popular, the play was kept running...

African/Aboriginal and three-quarters European ancestry. Similar classifications were octoroon for one-eighth black (Latin root octo-, means "eight") and quintroon for...

the Octoroon Mistress is a ghost tale about the haunting of a house on 734 Royal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The haunting of the Octoroon House...

work in theatre include the roles of Oswald in a 2016 Ghosts, BJJ in An Octoroon in 2017 and Leo in White Noise in 2021. The newspaper i said that "Nwosu...

Oparah named an Emerging Talent at the 2017 Screen Nation Film and Television Awards. That same year, she starred as Minnie in the play An Octoroon at the Orange...

2023 and earned him his first Tony Award. His additional plays include An Octoroon and The Comeuppance. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016. Jacobs-Jenkins...

reprised her leading role as Zoe in An Octoroon at Soho Repertory Theatre An Octoroon utilized the plot of The Octoroon, an 1859 melodrama, but turned it into...

one who is neither completely "black" nor "white". The female "tragic octoroon" was a stock character of abolitionist literature: a light-skinned woman...

The Octoroon is an Australian film directed by George Young based on a popular play by Dion Boucicault which had recently enjoyed a popular run in Australia...

I. She was also a member of an all-female band, Venus Envy. After Love released three albums on her own label, Octoroon Biography, Putumayo released...

William Isham (1866 – September 24, 1902) was an American vaudeville impresario who was known for his Octoroons and Oriental America shows. These had their...

productions, including The Merchant of Venice, Come and Gone, The Crucible, An Octoroon, and Hurt Village. On television, she guest-starred in Law & Order, Law...

accomplished blacks but also created an aesthetic role model to which those who desired an elite status might look up to. The Octoroon Girl was meant to be a symbol...

between regions and globally among populations of mixed ancestry. In Namibia, an ethnic group known as Rehoboth Basters, descend from historic liaisons between...

Paradise. The Octoroon, an 1859 anti-slavery play by Dion Boucicault, focuses on the tragic love between the white George Peyton and the Octoroon girl Zoe...

The Octoroon is a 1909 American silent film produced by Kalem Company and directed by Sidney Olcott, shot in Florida. The film was shot in Jacksonville...

European navigation "disenclavement", with it marking an end of isolation for some societies and an increase in inter-societal contact for most others....

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made...

professional stage debut in the 2018 National Theatre production of An Octoroon with Ken Nwosu, Kevin Trainor, Vivian Oparah, and Emmanuella Cole. This...

it was often ignored in French colonial society and the mulattoes became an intermediate caste between whites and blacks, while in the British colonies...

including the Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States. Under the law, an enslaved person was treated as property that could be bought, sold, or given...

Monarch of the Glen Zoe, character in, and the subject of, the play The Octoroon Zoey, a little girl character in the 2019 comedy movie Playing with Fire...

appearing in Colored Magazine in 1903 with her fictional story "Bernice, The Octoroon". Found in the Women's Era writings of 1894, Burgess-Ware contributed several...

Coloured, Dougla, half-caste, ʻafakasi, mestizo, mutt, Melungeon, quadroon, octoroon, sambo/zambo, Eurasian, hapa, hāfu, Garifuna, pardo, and Gurans. A number...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former...

Douglass, agitated for abolition in the mid-19th century. John Brown became an advocate and militia leader in attempting to end slavery by force of arms...

in the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BC), which refers to it as an established institution. Slavery was widespread in the ancient world in Europe...

Julia Chinn (c. 1790 – July 1833) was an American plantation manager and enslaved woman of "mixed-race" (an "octoroon" of seven-eighths European and one-eighth...

Abbey Theatre production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' stage adaptation of An Octoroon. He also appeared in Good Sex at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Around...