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"Negroland," or an enterprising cartographer fills up vacant spaces with wild animals stalking through the land.
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But the practice is from Negroland whence it reached Egypt, and the people have there developed a curious system in the “weeping-song” I have noted this in “The Lake Regions of Central Africa.”
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Long and luxuriant tresses belong to all the southern nations of Europe, and seem to be the results of heat of climate; and there are few facts in physiology more singular than the sudden check given to this luxuriance on the confines of Negroland.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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The country is a mere desart, as the name imports, and so parched for want of water, that the caravans from Morocco to Negroland are obliged to carry both water and provisions, the province producing hardly any thing for the support of life.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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Negroland, between the Senegal and the Niger, as with magnificent resolution he continued his way.
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In the slow years that followed, huddled in Northwest Africa, they became a decadent people and finally cast their eyes toward Negroland.
The Negro 1915
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The Arabic was used as the written tongue of the Sudan, and Negroland has given us in this tongue many chronicles and other works of black authors.
The Negro 1915
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Remembering that in the fifteenth century there was no great disparity between the civilization of Negroland and that of Europe, what made the striking difference in subsequent development?
The Negro 1915
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The Africa referred to here, however, was not Negroland, but Africa above the desert, where Negro blood was represented in the ancient Mediterranean race and by intercourse across the desert.
The Negro 1915
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Carthage, that North African city of a million men, had a large caravan trade with Negroland in ivory, metals, cloth, precious stones, and slaves.
The Negro 1915
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