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- noun An inhabitant of
Nigritia (present-daySudan ) - noun US
African American
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Examples
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Captain Shortland, of the Squirrel Frigate, has allowed two of his best seamen to go with me as volunteers in order to assist in rigging and navigating our Nigritian Men of War.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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Nigritian races, which was made up of the Asiatic and African negroes, was credited with 83 cubic inches of brain as a general statement.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various
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The Nigritian has such little command over his own muscles, from the weakness of his will, as almost to starve, when a little exertion and forethought would procure him an abundance.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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There are other elements peculiar to the Nigritian, on which the disease, called negro consumption, or Cachexia Africana, depends.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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The subordination of the Nigritian to the Caucasian would never have been imagined to be a condition similar to European slavery, if any regard had been paid to ethnology.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Whereas, the obedience of the Nigritian to the Caucasian is _spontaneous_ because it is normal for the weaker will to yield obedience to the stronger.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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The basis of Egyptian religion was "of a purely Nigritian character," [58] and in its developed form Sudanese tribal gods were invoked and venerated by the priests.
The Negro 1915
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Mediterranean; (2) African-Nigritian; (3) Mongolian; (4) American;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Nigritian (Negritos, Melanesians); (4) Australians and Tasmanians;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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# Negro, comprising the Nigritian and Bantu stocks = = black skin, dolichocephalic;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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