Word: blackamoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alioune Mamadou Kane came to Paris from his native Senegal in the early '30s. A spear-tall (6 ft. 8 in.), mission-trained blackamoor, he made a living by driving a taxi and hawking West African gewgaws. Then, at the 1937 Paris International Exposition, he performed as a fakir. It became a habit...
What he did submit was a 20-year new deal for the West Indies. If the British Exchequer were as big as little Scot MacDonald's heart he would put every blackamoor in the islands on Easy Street. But all he could expect to get from a war-pressed Parliament was $4,000,000 a year, to be spent for West Indian education, slum clearance, land settlement, labor departments. On all British colonies, Mr. MacDonald proposed to spend $20,000,000 a year for ten years. In addition to their specific allotment, the West Indies may share in this...