Word: blackamoor
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...Elkton to Baltimore, where before morning he had put his X to a written confession that he was Mrs. Denston's attacker. Over the protests of the State police, but on the orders of Judge Robert F. Duer and Prosecutor John B. Robins of Somerset County, the accused blackamoor was taken back to the county jail at Princess Anne...
Bechuanaland is officially native territory. Lewd Phineas Mackintosh took advantage of that fact to marry a blackamoor (a crime in the Union of South Africa), and to seduce numerous other Bamangwato tribeswomen...
...Southerners could not see how the jury could have decided otherwise. How could a man continue to live in a small Southern town if every- one who passed him on the street knew that he was one of twelve who set at liberty a blackamoor who surely had fought whites, possibly had molested a white woman...
When Angelo Herndon, 19-year-old blackamoor, went from Cincinnati to Georgia to preach Communism he forgot that in 1866, to prevent white men from seizing the government, some Georgians of his own race, aided by carpetbaggers, had passed a law making it a capital offense to "attempt to incite to insurrection." Last week in Atlanta Angelo Herndon heard himself accused of attempting to set up a "Black State," heard Georgia's white assistant solicitor general ask twelve white men to condemn him to death...
...Tree (by Richard Maibaum; Ira Marion, producer). Ed and Denny and Matt are all in love with the same girl in a rural district "north of the Mason-Dixon Line." A happy blackamoor named David is found dancing and singing for the girl. He is warned to stay away from her. The geography of The Tree, however, must not mislead you. There is a lynching. Victim is the Negro after the girl is found raped and slain. At this point this earnest play turns allegorical...