The region where negroes live.
1847. Our measures have given all that wide region to be the empire of negrodom.—Mr. Brockenbrough of Florida, House of Repr., Feb. 13: Cong. Globe, p. 376, App.
1862. I ought to thank you for a shaded map of negrodom, which you sent me a little while ago. What a terrible amount of trouble and expense in washing that sheet white, and after all I am afraid we shall only variegate it with blood and dirt.—N. Hawthorne in Bridge’s ‘Personal Recollections’ (1893), p. 173. (N.E.D.)
