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Quinteron The Spaniards in America established an ethnic hierarchy, or caste system, that depended on the degree of Spanish blood possessed. , Expressions such as tercerones, cuarterones or quinterones (and successive) were also used to name those people of apparent white appearance, but who carried a third, quarter or fifth part of black or indigenous blood.

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