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ˈNegroland
[f. Negro + land.]
The land or region (in Africa) inhabited by Negroes; the Southern States of the U.S.A. (rare).
1756J. Wesley Works (1872) IX. 209 Either in Negroland or round the Cape of Good Hope. 1764Goldsm. Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) I. 187 The princes on the coast of Negroland. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) III. 302 In Negroland, witchcraft is even now the most common of all crimes. 1836F. A. Kemble Let. 5 Oct. in Rec. Later Life (1882) I. 66 The nearest town to this estate, Brunswick, is..a wretched hole, where I am assured it will be impossible to obtain a decent lodging for me... The owner will go..without us, on his expedition to Negroland. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 316 The destitute savages who occupy the insulated hamlets of central Negroland. 1901Daily Chron. 12 Aug. 7/5 Nothing, they declare, will place the white man in lasting possession of Negroland. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Feb. 145/1 Africa south of the Sahara is by no means coterminous with negroland. |