negress

• “The negresses are examined by a female specially appointed for that purpose, and the negress is sold on the faith of her statement being correct.”

  Slave Auctions in Richmond, Virginia

• “It is mentioned, as an instance of fidelity, that a negress is the gaoler of the women in Tangier.”

  Travels in Morocco

• “Ketchum 1.169 speaks of a negress, aged thirteen, who gave birth to a well-developed child which began to menstruate at ten years and nine months and at thirteen became pregnant; hence the negress was a grandmother at twenty-five years and nine months.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

• “At last two dinars stuck to the dough and she drew them through the fissure and returned to her own chamber; then, calling the negress, she gave her the ducats saying, "Go thou to the Bazar and buy us some mutton and rice and clarified butter; and do thou also bring us some fresh bread and spices and return with them without delay.”

  Arabian nights. English

• “To Rawlings, Zora was a "negress"; to Hurston, they were both just Southerners, writers and women.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Southern Soulmates

• “The problem is that the overarching joke of my work was that very early on I positioned myself as a "negress", and there was a fictional construct that embraced this anachronistic and totally racist naming that I used as a tool.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Ayers: "Almost Political By Accident." A Conversation With Artist Kara Walker.

• “There were a couple of long-winded titles for different works and shows where the word "negress" was prominent - partially as a device and partially as a way of distancing myself from myself, or liberating myself from myself, or something.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Ayers: "Almost Political By Accident." A Conversation With Artist Kara Walker.

• “Being fond of "negress", speaking as a cracker, would go over pretty poorly with a whole lot of people too.”

  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz

• “No, no," said I to the Marquise, "that piece of gallantry of Ninon is only a myth; it is the composition of Martinique, or of the negress, which is the real recipe of Madame de Maintenon.”

  Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete

• “The scintillating 'Aurora Borealis' became the brawny negress whose income from washing the community's clothes ran at about five hundred a month.”

  The Wife of a King

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