“This attitude also led to the Negrophile movements in Paris which used signs and objects of fetishism and primitivism to imply modernity.”

“Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looked like a chess-man beside him.”

“When the colony fell, the company freed the first slaves and some others, establishing early on a nucleus of free negros.”

“When Barilaro read Cosa de negros, he realized that Cucurto had captured the same festiveness, color, and celebration of daily life that he was trying to express graphically.”

“The lady who owned the Negros was a widow, who was born and raised in Massachusetts.”

“A half dozen other negroes, some limping and all scared, were humping it across a meadow.”

“I was awakened, as usual, by the outcries of the refractory negroes receiving their matinal stripes in the whipping-house.”

“They are the reminiscences of melodies sung by negroes stowing cotton in the holds of ships in Southern ports.”