A quadroon is one-fourth African black and thus easily classed as black in the United States, yet three of this person's four grandparents are white. An octoroon has seven white great-grandparents out of eight and usually looks white or almost so.oss of security within the minority community, and fear and distrust of the white world are also factors. It should now be apparent that the definition of a black person as one with any trace at all of black African ancestry is inextricably woven into the history of the United States.
AD or A.D. stands for Anno Domini and is a label for numbering years after Christ was born. BC or B.C. means Before Christ. The year Christ was born is considered AD 1 and the year before that is labeled 1 BC. Historians use a nomenclature with less religious connotation: namely CE/BCE where CE means Common Era and BCE stands for Before Common Era.
by Alex Carmichael. edited by Matt Slick. AD does not mean âAfter Death.â It is an abbreviation for âAnno Domini,â which is a Latin phrase meaning âin the year of our Lord,â referring to the year of Christ âs birth. BC means before Christ.egarding the use of BCE and CE, these are more recent developments. In most usages, BCE stands for âBefore the Common Era,â and CE stands for âCommon Era.â BCE is used in place of BC, and CE is used in place of AD.