Crossword clues for blacks
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blacks \Blacks\, n. pl.
The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
Soot flying in the air. [Eng.]
Black garments, etc. See Black, n.,
Wiktionary
n. (plural of Black English)
Wikipedia
Blacks may refer to:
- All Blacks, New Zealand rugby union team
- Black people
- Blacks Leisure Group, owner of Blacks and Millets in the United Kingdom
- The Blacks (play), a play by Jean Genet
- Blacks Photo Corporation, or Blacks, a defunct photography store chain
- Zamora, California, formerly called Blacks
Blacks (Canada) or Black (Canada) may refer to:
Usage examples of "blacks".
Lowell textile mills, of the Spanish-American war as seen by the Cubans, the conquest of the Philippines as seen by black soldiers on Luzon, the Gilded Age as seen by southern farmers, the First World War as seen by socialists, the Second World War as seen by pacifists, the New Deal as seen by blacks in Harlem, the postwar American empire as seen by peons in Latin America.
Or, to put it differently: Is it possible for whites and blacks to live together without hatred?
And it was natural to consider imported blacks as slaves, even if the institution of slavery would not be regularized and legalized for several decades.
So it would have been strange if those twenty blacks, forcibly transported to Jamestown, and sold as objects to settlers anxious for a steadfast source of labor, were considered as anything but slaves.
The blacks had been torn from their land and culture, forced into a situation where the heritage of language, dress, custom, family relations, was bit by bit obliterated except for the remnants that blacks could hold on to by sheer, extraordinary persistence.
African blacks found themselves especially helpless when removed from this.
The marches to the coast, sometimes for 1,000 miles, with people shackled around the neck, under whip and gun, were death marches, in which two of every five blacks died.
Catholic priest in the Americas named Father Sandoval wrote back to a church functionary in Europe to ask if the capture, transport, and enslavement of African blacks was legal by church doctrine.
Ultimately their resistance was controlled, and slavery was established for 3 million blacks in the South.
About twenty-five blacks and two Indians set fire to a building, then killed nine whites who came on the scene.
When mysterious fires broke out, blacks and whites were accused of conspiring together.
But the blacks were not totally submissive, and as their numbers grew, the prospect of slave rebellion grew.
North, and there was some contact between blacks and Indians, as in 1712 when Africans and Indians joined in an insurrection.
And so laws were passed prohibiting free blacks from traveling in Indian country.
George Washington had turned down the requests of blacks, seeking freedom, to fight in the Revolutionary army.