Negroes

Examples

• Livingstone states that good domestic breeds are highly valued by the negroes in the interior of Africa who have not associated with Europeans. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Some are Negroes and some are not, Pilar said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They are particularly uncomely Jews, Arabs, and negroes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Both negroes grinned a horrid grin, at this intimation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Sat and smoked his pipe, and said the infant negroes were--what did he say the infant negroes were? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Said the infant negroes were little humbugs,' repeated Mrs. Weller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There was little profit in trying to grow much cotton at such a rate, and most of the cotton picking was done by the negroes in the evenings, when the harder labor of the fields was finished. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There may be Negroes and rare beasts from Africa. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In the Southern States, culture among the negroes is openly deplored, and I do not blame any patriarch for dreading the education of women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In this tone he slowly recited the following paragraph: EXECUTOR'S SALE,--NEGROES! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Now, I always played with father's little negroes--it never did me any harm. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Trading negroes from Africa, dear reader, is so horrid! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Negroes are deemed as good as white people, in Venice, and so this man feels no desire to go back to his native land. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The committee are forbid to export negroes from Africa, or to import any African goods into Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Orders of the government prohibited the expulsion of the negroes from the protection of the army, when they came in voluntarily. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Between them and the enclosure stretched a cultivated field in which a number of negroes were working. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The number of negroes, accordingly, is much greater, in proportion to that of whites, in our sugar than in our tobacco colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Edison and his friends arrived in New Orleans just at the time of the great riot, when several hundred negroes were killed, and the city was in the hands of a mob. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The negroes, seeing his resolution, and being convinced, by his discourse, that they were wrong, went away ashamed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I've been south, and I must say I think the negroes are better off than they would be to be free. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It is so at this day among the negroes on the coast of Africa. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Many of the Negroes are held in slavery by the Moors. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Unless the Moors are Negroes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Negroes, therefore, must have been known in England in the dark ages. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The people, while willing to send their sons to the field, were not willing to part with their negroes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We were in a country where nearly all the people, except the negroes, were hostile to us and friendly to the cause we were trying to suppress. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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