Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A peculiarity, as in pronunciation, grammar, or choice and use of words, of English as spoken by negroes, especially in the southern United States.
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Examples
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Anti-semitism and anti-negroism will grow unless heroic measures can be undertaken to stop them.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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Indeed, the right is defined by its relationship to the boogeyman, whether communism or terrorism or some other kind of ism negroism? immigrantism?
Hullabaloo 2006
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Now, if we would increase the wealth of the country only one tenth in the next ten years, by the gradual disappearance of slavery and negroism (far below the results of the census), then, our wealth being now $16,159,616,068, the effect of such increase would be to make our wealth in 1870, instead of
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Maryland, the border States, and the South would then indeed commence a new career of progress, by removing slavery and negroism; and their augmented wealth, and that of the whole country, would soon return to the Government, in increased revenue, a sum far exceeding the cost of gradual emancipation and colonization.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Would we then in all these advance more rapidly, we must remove slavery and negroism, the retarding cause.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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With our only cause of ignorance and poverty among the people, and only element of discord among the States, extirpated by the gradual removal of slavery and negroism, we would bound forward in a new and wonderful career of power and prosperity.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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And once again the self-respecting whites put their shoulders to the wheel and triumphed over negroism, corruption and incompetency in office and administration.
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I am firmly rooted in the conviction that negroism, as exemplified in the American type, is an attitude of mental density, a kind of spiritual sensuousness; but that each of these characteristics, though endowed with great persistency and potency, is nevertheless amenable to radical treatment.
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As Chairman of the State Committee, I want to make a personal and urgent appeal to you to exert every effort just at this time to try to persuade your Populist friends that it is their duty to themselves, their families and their neighbors to help us in this supreme struggle to save the State from negroism and the recklessness of the men that now control it.
People's Party Hand-Book of Facts. Campaign of 1898. N.C. 1898
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'idea' of 'free negroism' and a crusade in favor of inferior races.
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