Benjamin January/Janvier, a free man of color and the main character in Barbara Hambly's historical mystery series set in 1830's New Orleans, is a described as a griffe.
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In Little Women, a novel by Louisa M. Alcott, Mr and Mrs Bhaer take in a quadroon boy to the school they open.
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Thus emerged middle classes formed by Zambo, mulatto and Quadroon - those with a quarter black blood - and other mixtures, so that in 1820 they made up 84 percent of the population.