blackman
See also: Blackman and black man
English
Noun
blackman (plural blackmen)
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of black man
- 1859, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, p. 274:
- On the summit of a hill they were seen by my fathers, my countrymen, on the top of the hill they were seen standing: they threw fire like a star,—it fell amongst the blackmen my countrymen.
- 1912, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, vol XI, Duke University Press 2011, p. 44:
- “Recognised and compensated,” will both these condition[s] be occupied by the blackman in the world forty years hence?
- 1990, Wole Soyinka, The Blackman and the Veil, SEDCO 1993, p. 3:
- It is nearly a century since DuBois described the condition of the blackman thus […]
- 1859, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, p. 274: