Talk:Blackman

An oddity: blackman for "black man"

I have been reading Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959) and it consistently uses "blackman" instead of "black man" (i.e. person of black race), as though it were something like "Frenchman" or "Welshman". I've never seen it written that way before and was particularly surprised to see it in a scholarly text. Equinox ◑ 21:42, 4 February 2020 (UTC)