The 1890 U.S. census classified people of African descent as black, mulatto, quadroon, or octoroon, defining "octoroon" as anyone with one-eighth or any trace of black blood, and counted 6,337,980 blacks, 956,989 mulattoes, 105,135 quadroons, and 69,936 octoroons.
Sources
- Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930 (jlhochschild.scholars.harvard.edu)
- https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1890/bulletins/demographics/199-colored-population-african-chinese-japanese-indians.pdf (www2.census.gov)
- https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/06/11/chapter-1-race-and-multiracial-americans-in-the-u-s-census/ (pewresearch.org)
- https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/index_of_questions/1890_1.html (census.gov)
- https://www.nationalacademies.org/read/9599/chapter/4 (nationalacademies.org)
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