单词 | salt-water negro |
释义 | salt-water Negron. Originally Caribbean and U.S. (originally colonial). Now historical. An enslaved person who was born in Africa and brought to the Caribbean or (originally colonial) United States. Cf. salt-water Creole n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > black jong1615 servant1643 New Negro1701 salt-water Negro1708 boy1796 blackbird1853 intelligent contraband1861 contraband1862 1708 J. Oldmixon Brit. Empire in Amer. II. v. 122 The Creolian Negroes are every way preferable to the new Comers, (which they call Salt-Water Negroes). 1770 J. Coolidge Runaway Slave Advt. 8 Aug. in Maryland Gaz. 30 Aug. A Salt Water Negro, named Scotland, a likely slim Fellow. 1835 R. N. Dunbar Cruise 70 Though almost all the present race of slaves are of Creole birth, there still survive many old salt-water negroes, i.e. aboriginal Africans imported before 1807. 1995 R. L. Hall in D. R. Colburn & J. L. Landers Afr. Amer. Heritage Florida (2017) iii. 48 Although ‘salt water Negroes’ from Africa became less numerous following the official closure of the overseas slave trade by the U.S. Congress in 1807, illegal imports from Africa continued. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1708 |
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