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A black man, esp. a black manservant. Cf. boy, n.1 1. Obsolete.
A male servant, slave, assistant, junior employee, etc. Used (chiefly by white people) with reference to non-white slaves and (in English-speaking…
a Cape Coloured man or boy (see Cape Coloured adj. n.).
A type of a shuffling, obsequious, black servant. Hence, any servile black man; an Uncle Tom. Also attributive.