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    negro


    1. By act of assembly, they have restrained its cultivation to six thousand plants, supposed to yield a thousand weight of tobacco, for every negro between sixteen and sixty years of age


    2. Such a negro, over and above this quantity of tobacco, can manage, they reckon, four acres of Indian corn


    3. } (I suspect he has been ill informed), burnt a certain quantity of tobacco for every negro, in the same manner as the Dutch are said to do of spices


    4. The late resolution of the Quakers in Pennsylvania, to set at liberty all their negro slaves, may satisfy us that their number cannot be very great


    5. In all European colonies, the culture of the sugar-cane is carried on by negro slaves


    6. Thus was the crafty Negro foiled; a man of undoubted talent, whose cleverness and education, if directed properly, might have made him a leading light on the Gold Coast


    7. It was a trial of orthodoxy that even the Negro mind could not stand


    8. To understand why this woman laid the charge, picture a Negro slave before 1865 asking for the hand of a Southern woman


    9. A few miles from Fumsu, the path was remarkably wide and clear, and in full light of the moon, and close to the road, I noticed a hole and the body of a Negro at the bottom with a cloth over his face


    10. I told him of the mutilation and he at once said “O yes, sah, dat man then, sah, hab him face cut for chop, sah! Bush man make plenty chop long pig when he find man go die, sah!” Naturally, I was incredulous, but the Houssa's verdict may have been correct that the Negro had died, and being a stranger, the men who were burying him, had adjourned their task for a gruesome and disgusting feast

    11. I went in to see his patient and found a young Negro evidently suffering from fever and dysentery


    12. On the road we passed an intelligent-looking Negro accompanied by a large train of attendants


    13. ” Every other Negro wished to shake hands, the women clapped their hands and shouted words of welcome, and the youngsters crowded round with their shrill little “Good hevenin, sah!” With the men who had been right to the front, the levies and others, a note of “bonne camaraderie” was at once struck up; but one very side there was a distinct and noticeable difference in the attitude of the people toward Europeans


    14. Garcia brought 2000 insurgents, his Negro regiments of Cambote and Barracoa, from Assedero, in government transports


    15. The Negro pacificos, many of whom were armed with rifles shipped down at the time but were absolutely without discipline, had no such scruples, and pilfered at every opportunity


    16. Many of the coloured troopers were praying aloud with Negro familiarity, but their supplications were constantly broken by the flight of bullets, when a volley was fired in our direction, and they responded in kind


    17. Garcia's men grew wary of carrying despatches after dark, and gave our lines a wide berth, though starving Negro pacificos hung round the camps in hundreds, and pestered the soldiers, who berated Cubans in general in consequence


    18. The action of a few Negro desperadoes during the war were taken as texts for wholesale condemnation of the Cuban race


    19. is every splay footed, hump backed, thick lipped, flat nosed, wooly headed, ebon colored Negro


    20. As the Henschel pulled up, and Colling dropped down from the cab, Blackshear greeted him effusively, and Colling noted that the Negro wore sergeant’s stripes

    21. Colling noticed that repairs seemed to have been completed on adjacent storage facilities, and additional Negro quartermaster troops were working on their loading docks


    22. The Negro sergeant called out to a group of his subordinates, telling them they needed to load one of the soda fountains onto the Henschel truck parked outside


    23. The case before Chief Justice Taney’s Court involved the status of a Negro slave in Missouri named Dred Scott


    24. There the court declared the Negro to be of an inferior race, and nullified congressional efforts to reach a compromise over slavery on the eve of the War Between the States


    25. American Negro is disadvantaged


    26. The Negro has no preexisting culture, has a gutted family structure, is desperately poor, and has no allies


    27. The Negro is to provide the shaft for the spearhead


    28. There were in general two major approaches to a solution on the part of the Negro community


    29. His attitude toward racism was to slowly dissolve it by Negro self-sufficiency and economic advancement based on Negro achievement within the existing culture


    30. Du Bois, who favored higher level education (law and medicine) in order to produce and sustain a cultural Negro elite (the “Talented Tenth”), which would serve a leadership role in the Negro community

    31. It was a purely Negro affair


    32. The statement closed by including a list of responsibilities the Negro accepted as American citizens:


    33. was founded by the Protestant and Jewish Left, with almost no Negro membership


    34. the six founding members, only two were Negro


    35. Back of this lay an unasked question as to the relation of the American Negro group itself to the whole labor movement


    36. was the sort of Negro who could be used; his internal motive forces were self-sufficient drivers


    37. The Uses of the American Negro


    38. How did it get that way? For the Jewish Left, the Negro is indispensable as a tool against established society, a free market, and ultimately, liberty


    39. : the WASP elite as equals and the American Negro as a client population


    40. "So you going to tell me, Negro?"

    41. Not to mention she may even had that trifling Negro in the same bed they conceived their second child in


    42. Four hours later, washed, refreshed and well fed I left the youth hostel, waved to my Negro on his bicycle – now wearing a pair of shorts, and within a minute was in the front seat of a chauffeur-driven limousine, chatting over my shoulder to the Tunisian Minister for Education who was on his way to a remote desert oasis, before visiting his counterpart in Libya


    43. Grande Negro Draconis


    44. The people were a mixed race, a dusky nobility ruling a population that was largely pure Negro


    45. At the end of the procession there stalked a huge Negro with an unusually wicked cast of countenance, at the sight of whom Conan scowled


    46. The only aliens here were negro and Shemite slaves; and he resembled neither even as much as he resembled the Stygians themselves


    47. He rushed at the remaining Khitan, his empty hand lifted like a weapon, and that hand was black as that of a negro


    48. Entering the kitchen he saw another taped off area and smelled the gore of the female Negro cook


    49. could a negro grow,If a negro could grow knees?The answer,


    50. This occurred while a recital was about to begin at Grace Presbyterian Church with Marian and others from the National Association of Negro Musicians














































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    Synonyms for "negro"

    african-american black negro negroid colored coloured

    "negro" definitions

    a person with African ancestry,


    having skin rich in melanin pigments