mustee

plural mustees

1. archaicA person of one-eighth African ancestry.

   Near the commencement of the weeding season of 1835, I was ordered to whip a young woman, a light mustee, for not performing her task.

   1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

   1 more example

   a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee; the child of a white man by a mustee woman is a mustiphini;

   1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493

   Synonyms: octaroon, octoroon