Context: The figure of the "tragic octoroon" was a stock character of abolitionist literature: a mixed-race woman raised as if a white woman in her white father's household, until his bankruptcy or death has her reduced to a menial position She may even be unaware of her status before being reduced to victimization. The first character of this type was the heroine of Lydia Maria Child's "The Quadroons" (1842), a short story. This character allowed abolitionists to draw attention to the sexual exploitation in slavery and, unlike portrayals of the suffering of the field hands, did not allow slaveholders to retort that the sufferings of Northern mill hands were no easier. The Northern mill owner would not sell his own children into slavery.

Question: What stock character lived with her white father until he left the picture?
Answer: "tragic octoroon"

Question: Who was the first to use the tragic octoroon?
Answer: Lydia Maria Child

Question: What story was written by Child in 1842?
Answer: "The Quadroons"

Question: What does the tragic octoroon point out?
Answer: sexual exploitation in slavery

Question: Who used the figure of the tragic octoroon?
Answer: abolitionists

Question: Who wrote about the last "tragic octoroon" character?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What story was the last "tragic octoroon" character in?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What character allowed abolitionists to draw attention away from sexual exploitation?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who would sell his own children into slavery?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was a mixed-race woman raised as a black woman in her black father's household called?
Answer: Unanswerable