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- noun Plural form of
Nigritian .
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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the slaves were obtained by a variety of methods, of which the most common was that of raiding the agricultural Nigritians who lived in towns and cities scattered and unorganized in the agricultural zone, and who were easy victims of the mounted bands of desert Berbers, Tuaregs and Arabs who descended into the region in quest of booty and captives.
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The Fellatahs, who, since the beginning of the nineteenth century, have been the dominators of the Nigritians in West Africa, used to carry on a merciless campaign against their subjects, destroying their homes and fields, and seizing women and children by the thousands to barter away to the West, or to send across the desert.
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Hence, the primordial cell germ of the Nigritians has no more potency than what is sufficient to form a being with physical power, when its dynamism becomes exhausted, dropping the creature in the wilderness with the mental organization too imperfect to enable him to extricate himself from barbarism.
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 idea of a Being higher than man, invisible, inaccessible, master of life and death, orderer of all things, seems to exist everywhere; among the Negritos, the Hottentots, the Bantu, the Nigritians, the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Nigritians, and most of the Hamites, have practically neither fetishes, idols, nor material images, honoured with any kind of worship.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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It is practically non-existent among the Hottentots, the Bantus of the east, the Nigritians, the Hamites, and the Negritos.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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If the Nigritians, the next morning, approve of the bargain, they take up the trinkets and leave the gold-dust, or else make some deductions from the latter.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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One cannot positively assert that something like this might not have existed amongst the Nigritians and their foreign exchangers of produce and merchandize.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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