Guinea-mann.

1695 J. Miller Descr. New York (1843) 37 On board a small Guineaman.

1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 46 A ship belonging to Liverpool, with 350 slaves on board, was lately carried into Barbadoes by another Guineaman, after a smart engagement.

1800 Capt. Cunningham in Naval Chron. 4 417 The Dick Guineaman, of Liverpool.

1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge i. 7 The bars..of the various African rivers, where the contraband Guineamen were in the habit of lurking.

1881 W. C. Russell Ocean Free-lance II. iv. 167 With the hope of netting one of the numerous contraband Guineamen crossing the Atlantic for the Spanish Main.

1756 Spence Anecd. (1858) 281 Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. ‘Nephew, (said Sir Godfrey,) you have the honour of seeing the two greatest men in the world’. ‘I don't know how great you may be, (said the Guinea-man), but I don't like your looks: I have often bought a man, much better than both of you together, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas’.

1830 H. Crow Mem. 168 Convinced me that there were more untruths said of Guineamen than any other class of people.

1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. I. 204 Dissimilar in aspect and aspirations as a Guineaman and a Hindoo.

1849 J. G. Whittier Leaves from Margaret Smith's Jrnl. in Prose Wks. (1889) I. 14 His skin was swarthy, not black like a Moor or Guinea-man, but of a color not unlike that of tarnished copper coin.

1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism 232 This impertinently intruding guinea-man at Sion-College.

1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 33 The corps being termed the Guinea corps; the members of it collectively Guineamen; and it taken separately, this or that one is familiarly spoken of as being concerned and interested in the Guinea trade.