| 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. |
| When the colony fell, the company freed the first slaves and some others, establishing early on a nucleus of free negros. |
| On Apo Island, off the southern coast of Negros in the Philippines, for example, villagers are no longer dynamiting the coral reefs to catch fish. |
| 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. |
