| 单词 | black flesh |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack flesh black flesh n. originally U.S. (now historical) slaves of African origin, considered as a commodity (cf. fleshmonger n. 3). ΚΠ 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. viii. 125 The newspapers of Kentuck have called you a dealer in black flesh a hundred times, but little did they reckon that you drove the trade into white families. 1896 Fortn. Rev. July 9 The easeful leisure of certain cultured English men and women..is the result of their fathers' traffic in black flesh. 1968 Ebony Nov. 16/4 It was the Arab who showed the white man what a fortune could be made in black flesh. 2000 F. A. Nussbaum in V. Jones Women & Lit. in Brit., 1700–1800 iii. 69 Any Englishmen possessed the right to trade in black flesh. < as lemmas |
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