A “darky.”
1760–72. The Negro women, or coloured women, as they are called here.—Tr. ‘Juan and Ulloa’s Voyages,’ i. 121. (N.E.D.)
1800. A man of colour of the island of St. Domingo.—The Aurora, Phila., Feb. 22.
1812. Christopher Macpherson is a man of color, brought up as a book-keeper by a merchant, his master, and afterwards enfranchised.—Tho. Jefferson to John Adams, April 20.
See also PERSON OF COLOUR.
