negress

The negresses are examined by a female specially appointed for that purpose, and the negress is sold on the faith of her statement being correct.

Slave Auctions in Richmond, Virginia 1861

It is mentioned, as an instance of fidelity, that a negress is the gaoler of the women in Tangier.

Travels in Morocco 2003

Ketchum 1.169 speaks of a negress, aged thirteen, who gave birth to a well-developed child which began to menstruate at ten years and nine months and at thirteen became pregnant; hence the negress was a grandmother at twenty-five years and nine months.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

At last two dinars stuck to the dough and she drew them through the fissure and returned to her own chamber; then, calling the negress, she gave her the ducats saying, "Go thou to the Bazar and buy us some mutton and rice and clarified butter; and do thou also bring us some fresh bread and spices and return with them without delay."

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

There were a couple of long-winded titles for different works and shows where the word "negress" was prominent - partially as a device and partially as a way of distancing myself from myself, or liberating myself from myself, or something.

Robert Ayers: "Almost Political By Accident." A Conversation With Artist Kara Walker. Robert Ayers 2010

The problem is that the overarching joke of my work was that very early on I positioned myself as a "negress", and there was a fictional construct that embraced this anachronistic and totally racist naming that I used as a tool.

Robert Ayers: "Almost Political By Accident." A Conversation With Artist Kara Walker. Robert Ayers 2010

To Rawlings, Zora was a "negress"; to Hurston, they were both just Southerners, writers and women.

Southern Soulmates Stuart Ferguson 2010

The problem is that the overarching joke of my work was that very early on I positioned myself as a "negress", and there was a fictional construct that embraced this anachronistic and totally racist naming that I used as a tool.

Robert Ayers: "Almost Political By Accident." A Conversation With Artist Kara Walker. Robert Ayers 2010

The problem is that the overarching joke of my work was that very early on I positioned myself as a "negress", and there was a fictional construct that embraced this anachronistic and totally racist naming that I used as a tool.

Robert Ayers: "Almost Political By Accident." A Conversation With Artist Kara Walker. Robert Ayers 2010

There were a couple of long-winded titles for different works and shows where the word "negress" was prominent - partially as a device and partially as a way of distancing myself from myself, or liberating myself from myself, or something.

Robert Ayers: "Almost Political By Accident." A Conversation With Artist Kara Walker. Robert Ayers 2010