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.
Question: What is the meaning of BC and AD (B.C. and A.D.)? Answer: It is commonly thought that B.C. stands for âbefore Christâ and A.D. stands for âafter death.â This is only half correct. How could the year 1 B.C. have been âbefore Christâ and A.D. 1 been âafter deathâ? B.C. does stand for âbefore Christ.â A.D. actually stands for the Latin phrase anno domini, which means âin the year of our Lord.â The B.C./A.D. dating system is not taught in the Bible. It actually was not fully implemented and accepted until several centuries after Jesusâ death.