Negro

Negro, homo pelli nigra, a name given to a variety of human species, who are entirely black, and found in the torrid zone, especially in that part of africa which lie within the tropics. In the complexion of negroes we meet with various shades; but the likewise differ far from other men in all their features of their face. Round cheeks, high cheek-bones, a forehead somewhat elevated, a short, broad, flat nose, thick lips, small ears, ugliness, and irragularity of shape, characterizes their external appearance. The negro woman have their loins greatly depressed, and very large buttocks, which give the back the shape of a saddle. Vices the most notorious seems to be the portion of this unhappy race: idleness, treachery, revenge, cruelty, impudence, stealing, lying, profanity, debauchery, nastiness and intemperance, are said to have extinguished the principles of natural law, and to have silenced the reproofs of conscience. They are stranges to every sentiment of compassion, and are an awful example of the corruption of man when left to himself.
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1798)
posted by :Aleksander Motturi