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Examples
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The Coromantee was the first to inquire into its character.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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The greatest of the Maroon leaders of this island was Cudjoe, an illiterate, ragged, barefooted, undersized, and unshapely Coromantee.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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The greatest of the Maroon leaders of this island was Cudjoe, an illiterate, ragged, barefooted, undersized, and unshapely Coromantee.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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The greatest of the Maroon leaders of this island was Cudjoe, an illiterate, ragged, barefooted, undersized, and unshapely Coromantee.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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The plot was brewed by some Coromantee and Paw Paw negroes who had procured the services of a conjuror to make them invulnerable; and it may have been joined by several Spanish or Portuguese Indians or mestizoes who had been captured at sea and unwarrantably, as they contended, reduced to slavery.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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In one case when a Coromantee had brained a sentry he was notified by Snelgrave that he was to die in the sight of his fellows at the end of an hour's time.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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Ceasing to be Foulah, Coromantee, Ebo or Angola, he became instead the American negro.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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He was very glad that I knew Spanish and French, and explained that if I would learn Coromantee or Ebo, it would aid us immensely in getting cargoes.
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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Saying this the Coromantee proceeded to single out his hooks; and, assisted by Ben Brace, commenced baiting them with an unconcern that testified a full confidence in the truth of his assertion.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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On the contrary, he swam straight on, his eyes steadfastly fixed upon the one object that seemed to have possession of his soul, -- the Coromantee!
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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