Several ragged negroes leaned comfortably against the posts of the awning and contemplated the arrival of the wayfarers with lazy curiosity.
The Kaffirs tell the same story of a cannibal, but the way the negroes have it is like this: 'Old Mrs. Sow had five little pigs, whom she warned against the machinations of Brer Wolf.
We are told that the negroes of Georgia have such a legend; that the natives of Australia have one; that the Zulus have it; that the Indians of North America and of British Guiana, and the Malays, all have versions of it.
You can pull down fences, but theNegroes will put them up the next morning.
After declaring that--"Not only are our non-Slaveholders loyal, but even our Negroes are.
The Negroes think that this spider is the 'Ananzi' of their stories, but that his superior cunning enables him to take any shape he pleases.
In those days when the slaves were still half heathen, and when the awful Obeah was universally believed in, such of the Negroes as attended church or chapel kept their children away from these funeral gatherings.
The Negroes are very shy of telling them, and both the clergyman of the Church of England, and the Dissenting Minister set their faces against them, and call them foolishness.
He has been educated, so to speak, to a sense of duty and honor; and negroes of his class have almost never been known to violate a trust.
It is very certain that a class of negroes has grown up in these more recent years that was practically unknown in slave times when white men were more largely responsible for their moral training.
Of course there are bad niggers, but as a rule such negroes have grown up under conditions that would develop the evil in any race of men.
There are almost as great variations among the negroes as among white people," Mr. West was saying.
As Percy turned in at Mr. Thornton's gate he saw a white man and two negroes working at the barn.
The freeing of the negroes produced much less effect in the economic conditions of the south than many have supposed.
The affectionate negroes gathered around her, with loud demonstrations of their sympathy and their joy in again meeting their mistress.
The negroesdid not think him half worthy of their adored and queenly Josephine.
She had no playmates but the little negroes and she united with them freely in all their sports.
Josephine talked a few moments with the young negroes upon the folly of this pretended fortune-telling, and leaving them, the affair passed from her mind.
Our traveller's information is here, I think, certainly at second hand, though no doubt he had seen the negroes whom he describes with such disgust, and apparently the sheep and the giraffes.
Lundy was interested in various schemes for colonization, and assisted many emancipated negroes to go to Hayti, and contemplated the establishment of a colony of colored people in Mexico.
The colonization scheme, that is a plan to colonize emancipated negroes either in Africa, or in Hayti, or elsewhere, was prominently urged during the time of Elias Hicks.
Mrs. Stowe had traveled in the South and had seen how the negroes were kept in ignorance, and how cruelly they were sometimes treated.
To this day one of the most striking sights in these states are the great sawmills and the stills, where negroes are making turpentine much as it was made a century and a half ago.
Then negroes were brought from Africa, and soon most of the work was done by black slaves.
She aided in establishing schools for the negroes in the South, and worked among them earnestly until her death in 1896.
Every family there had fled to town, except in one place, where seventy white men and forty negroes had surrounded themselves with a breast-work, and resolved to remain and defend themselves in the best manner they could.
They forcibly seized the effects or negroes of such as refused, sold them at public auction, and applyed the money for the payment of their taxes.
In short, the negroes were overcome by his flattering promises, and three hundred stout fellows accepted his offer, and consented to embark along with him.
Middleton declared he looked on such injurious orders as a breach of national honour and faith, especially as negroes were real property, such as houses and lands, in Carolina.
Except a few negroes whom Sir John Yeamans and his followers brought along with them from Barbadoes, there were no labourers but Europeans for the purposes of culture.
To prevent negroes escaping to the Spanish territories, and overawe the Indians under the Spanish juridiction, the Carolineans had built a fort on the forks of the river Alatamaha, and supported a small garrison in it.
I saw the negroes carrying some long boxes built like chicken-coops.
I was standing on the guards watching the jolly, happy negroes as they seized the huge sticks and ran to the music of their camp-meeting hymns and piled it near the engine.
They said that one of the negroes had said that I was a gambler, and they were going to lick me before I got off the boat.
The old negroes are opposed to going away or in any shape annoying their masters.
There was but one oar in the boat, which the negroes used as a scull.
Their real purpose is to get the negroes and hold them until the two governments come to terms, and then they will get rewards for every nigger they hold.
Two negroes joined the party that stole forward through the rose-field to the negro quarters.
They had by this time reached a row of tumble-down stables directly in the rear of the prison, and shut out from the open ground by a decrepit fence, broken here and there by negroes too lazy to pass out into the street to reach the river.
Wesley Boone's trying to get the negroes to help him off.
They are 'fraid as sin of the overseers, but you notice they shut up all the negroes in their own quarters at night, don't you?
In Richmond the escape had been announced, then the news that the party had been surrounded in the swamp, then day by day details of the taking of straggling negroes and one or two soldiers, but no name that even resembled Jack's.
The negroes are surrounding the house, and Wesley is in mischief.
It seems that some one has spread the story among them that Lincoln has sent Butler to Fort Monroe to receive all the negroes on the Peninsula.
The negroes carried on all the domestic concerns of the land.
The women of Egypt are as much slaves as ever were the negroes of our South.
But the whole purpose of the Civic League I formed among the village negroes was to keep their quarters decent.
The negroes guffawed in delight, the hounds bayed again till the hills echoed.
For days beforehand the negroes were busy indoors and out, cleaning, painting and whitewashing, exhibiting a tendency to burst into syncopated strains of Lohengrin whenever Jemima or the Professor came into view.
The place had a sinister reputation, and was sedulously avoided by both negroes and whites of the neighborhood; which suited Jacqueline's purposes excellently.
Farmers, tenants, even negroes in the field, had on occasion proudly shared their bacon and corn-pone with the Madam's youngest daughter.
When the negroes had had enough of it and were whimpering for mercy, she turned her attention to the foreman.
In the spring of 1865 Garrison returned from hoisting the flag at Fort Sumter, fully satisfied that the negroes could be safely trusted in future to the patriarchal care of the central government.
The hunter immediately started off home, and brought his negroes and dogs to the spot, where they found stretched dead upon the ground a Lion of the largest size.
The Negroes and Panamanians are much more distinct in the interior than about the Zone with its terminal cities, where the remnants of humanity have been stirred together for four hundred years.
I would not endanger the perpetuity of this Union, I would not blot out the great inalienable rights of the white man, for all the negroes that ever existed.
I do not believe that it was the design or intention of the signers of the Declaration of Independence or the framers of the Constitution to include negroes as citizens.
The finality of the Dred Scott decision and the exclusion of negroes from the Declaration of Independence were insisted on.
The Dred Scott case, he continued, decides that negroes are not citizens.
I care more for the great principle of self-government, the right of the people to rule, then I do for all the negroes in Christendom.
The Abolitionists were arming negroes in the free States and inciting them to murder anyone who attempted to seize them under the provisions of the law.
Let each State decide for itself how it would treat the negroes and let its neighbors alone.
I do not believe that the signers of the Declaration had any reference to negroes when they used the expression that all men were created equal.
And, though the grown people doubted whether the negroes had not been startled by some of the hogs, which were quite wild, feeding in the woods, the boys were satisfied that the negroes really had seen deserters.
The negroes were directed to take the provisions over to the other side of the stream into the camp, and in a little while the whole regiment were enjoying the breakfast.
Frank was the captain, Willy the first lieutenant, and a dozen or more little negroes composed the rank and file, Peter and Cole being trusted file-closers.
That night at least a dozen of the negroes disappeared.
The Pyrates plundered them all and let them go, putting the Negroes out of the Brigantine aboard of Yeat's Vessel, by which Means they came back again to the right Owners.
I wonder nobody seems to have observed how remarkably tall the larger number of these negroes are.
I am sure the regiments of negroes thought so, and enjoyed the supposition.
The negroes and dogs all drink what they choose, and invariably grow fat in sugar time.
Flocks of decently dressed and moderately happy-faced negroes and coolies are at work in the corn-fields.
The negroes who were rowing him fled in affright: before help could arrive he had gone down for the last time, and was never seen again.
The lady tells me by proxy that she much prefers negroes to coolies because they are so much more amiable.
The gentlemen go to the sugar-house or ingenio, which yields an income of from seventy-five to a hundred thousand per year, with two hundred and fifty negroes and coolies to perform the work.
Like all the negroes of these English islands, they are taught reading, writing, and the elements of an ordinary school education.
The negroes now cannot be coaxed or hired or driven to work more than is absolutely necessary to keep soul and body from a divorce.
I will, for the present, consider only the case of the unmixed negroes of the Southern States, the number of which I suppose to be about two millions.
Is it not possible to apply to the superintendence of the working negroes something like the system which regulates the duties of the foreman in all our manufacturing establishments?
The negroes are its enemies, and kill it whenever and wherever they can.
The flesh is said to be unpalatable to most white persons, for two glands impart a very strong and repellent odor of garlic to it, but the negroes like it, and the flesh repays them for the trouble of the pursuit.
At St. Jorge da Mina a negro king came to ask the assistance of Hawkins against a neighbouring king, promising him all the negroes that should be taken.
The result of the monopoly was that the price of negroes greatly rose, the suggestion as to Spanish colonists being sent to the Indies not having been acted upon.
He therefore requested permission to sell certain lean and sick negroes which he had in his ships, like to die upon his hands if he kept them ten days.
De Bry mentions that the negroes of Guinea ate filthy, stinking elephant-meat and buffalo-flesh infested with thousands of maggots, and says that they ravenously devoured dogs' guts raw.
Hornaday reports a case in a negress from North Carolina, and, curious to relate, Horwitz of Philadelphia and Shepherd of Canada found cases in negroes both of North Carolina antecedents.
Digby reports its prevalence on the west coast of Africa, particularly among a race of negroes called Krumens.
Many observers have noticed that negroes become several degrees lighter after syphilization; but no definite relation between syphilis and leukoderma has yet been demonstrated in this race.
Properly speaking, dirt-eating should be called geophagism; it is common in the Antilles and South America, among the low classes, and is seen in the negroes and poorest classes of some portions of the Southern United States.
Negroes have a rank ammoniacal odor, unmitigated by cleanliness; according to Pruner-Bey it is due to a volatile oil set free by the sebaceous follicles.
African sleep-sickness is a peculiar disorder, apparently infectious in character, which occurs among the negroes of the western coast of Africa.
However, among some of the indigenous negroes the female breasts are naturally very large and pendulous.
There seems to be a disposition in certain families and individuals to keloid-formations, and among negroes keloids are quite common, and often of remarkable size and conformation.
It is much more common in this country among the negroes than is generally supposed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "negroes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
