单词 | negro stealing |
释义 | > as lemmasNegro stealing Negro stealing n. ΚΠ 1819 Niles' Reg. 16 160/1 Sentence of death has been pronounced on a fellow in North Carolina, for negro stealing. 1897 Harper's Mag. Jan. 305/1 When his time was up he came out [sc. of prison] with a new determination. It was to go in for negro-stealing, as being much more profitable and very much less risky than the horse-stealing which had brought him to grief. 1963 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 48 172 British officers during the Revolution had a big part in promoting this Negro stealing: they got Indians, who sided with the British cause, to rob rebel slaveholders. < as lemmas |
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