Who were the "20 & odd Negroes"?
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Who were "Negroes" and how did this term originate? |
Ne·gro; nēɡrō/
now regarded as offensive noun: a member of a dark-skinned group of peoples originally native to Africa south of the Sahara. adjective: relating to black people. Around 1442, the Portuguese first arrived in Southern Africa while trying to find a sea route to India. The term negro, literally meaning 'black', was used by the Spanish and Portuguese as a simple description to refer to the Bantu peoples that they encountered. Negro denotes "black" in Spanish and Portuguese, derived from the Latin word Niger, meaning black, which itself is probably from a Proto-Indo-European root *nekw-, "to be dark", akin to *nokw-, night.[1][2] "Negro" was also used of the peoples of West Africa in old maps labelled Negroland, an area stretching along the Niger River. |
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