woolly-haired

Dons' diaries refer to the "woolly-haired undergraduate with a black wife and piccaninnies".

Alexander Crummell, Cambridge's first black graduate 2011

Just as he's about to seal the deal emotionally, he spies a familiar figure heading his way: Graydon Carter, the woolly-haired gatekeeper of Vanity Fair.

20 years later, greed's still good for Douglas in 'Wall Street' sequel 2010

Haeckel in History of Creation, printed in America in 1876, wrote, the "woolly-haired" Negros were "incapable of a true inner culture and of a higher mental development."

THE PHILOSOPHY OF JACK LONDON 2007

As for myself, I should think this probable, not merely because they are dark and woolly-haired, but because the inhabitants of Colchis, Egypt, and

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Matthew Selby, middle-aged, genial, woolly-haired, looked like everyone's image of an upright, respectable father figure.

No Man's Mistress Balogh, Mary 2001

Hardly a vestige is to be seen among them of the crisped and woolly-haired dark-brown

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

The men of that age in western Europe lived among animals such as the mammoth, cave bear, and woolly-haired rhinoceros, which have since disappeared, and among many others, such as the lion and hippopotamus, which now exist only in warmer climates.

Early European History Hutton Webster

As the woolly-haired Papuas are generally prized by the natives, constant visits are made to New Guinea and the easternmost islands, where they are procured, and afterward sold at high prices among any Malay community.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

Thus, having divided men according to the colour of their skins, if we wish to subdivide any of the classes, we must look out for some fresh attribute wherein some men of the same complexion differ from others, e.g. we might divide black men into woolly-haired blacks, such as the Negroes, and straight-haired blacks, like the natives of Australia.

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

Even envious Miss Briggs never spoke ill of her, high and mighty Miss Saltire (Lord Dexter’s granddaughter) allowed that her figure was genteel; and as for Miss Swartz, the rich woolly-haired mulatto from St. Kitt’s, on the day Amelia went away, she was in such a passion of tears, that they were obliged to send for Dr. Floss, and half tipsify her with salvolatile.

I. Chiswick Mall 1917