blackman

See also: Blackman and black man

English

Noun

blackman (plural blackmen)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of black man
   • 1859, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, page 274:

     On the summit of a hill they were seen by my fathers, my countrymen, on the top of the hill they were seen standing: they threw fire like a star,—it fell amongst the blackmen my countrymen.

   • 1912, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, volume XI, Duke University Press, published 2011, page 44:

     “Recognised and compensated,” will both these condition[s] be occupied by the blackman in the world forty years hence?

   • 1971, Bill Day, aboriginal poem:

     Australia’s true history is never read, But the blackman keeps it in his head.

   • 1990, Wole Soyinka, The Blackman and the Veil, SEDCO, published 1993, page 3:

     It is nearly a century since DuBois described the condition of the blackman thus […]