blacks

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The rendezvous for the blacks was to be a brook six miles from Richmond.

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  1. The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

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  • An alarm would be given, that the blacks were approaching, and a party, commissioned to repress them, would immediately advance; often blundering and incautious, shouting, smoking, and straggling about; carelessly firing their pieces, and affording abundant information of their approach. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2), by John West
  • We laughed very much at aunty's efforts in the Anti-slavery movement (just now at its height), when all Massachusetts has risen up with a bound in order to prove that the blacks are as good as the whites (if not better), and should have all their privileges. —  In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875
  • If Weiss wanted to make a more equal analogy, he might want to hypothetically suppose that the blacks were armed and funded by imposing enemy, namely USSR. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • But now the blacks are the ones seeing through this facade, not the blinded whites. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • If we can't do so, it will have a very ugly look for him But the blacks were active and cunning, and knew the country, which was more than their pursuers did. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
 

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