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#* '''1866''', ''The Contemporary Review'', London: A. Strahan, page 338. #* '''1866''', ''The Contemporary Review'', London: A. Strahan, page 338.
#*: ''Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the '''black''' market was flourishing.'' #*: ''Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the '''black''' market was flourishing.''
-# [[lack|Lacking]] [[cream]], [[milk]]{{,}} and [[creamer]].+# [[lack|Lacking]] [[cream]], [[milk]],and [[creamer]].
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 +== See also ==
*[[African American]] *[[African American]]

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This reproduction of a 1900 minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Litho Co., shows the transformation from white to "black".
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This reproduction of a 1900 minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Litho Co., shows the transformation from white to "black".

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  1. absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless.
  2. without light.
  3. Relating to persons of African descent or (especially in the US) their culture.
  4. Bad; evil.
    • 1655, Benjamin Needler, Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. London: N. Webb and W. Grantham, page 168.
      ...what a black day would that be, when the Ordinances of Jesus Christ should as it were be excommunicated, and cast out of the Church of Christ.
  5. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
    • 1866, The Contemporary Review, London: A. Strahan, page 338.
      Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the black market was flourishing.
  6. Lacking cream, milk,and creamer.

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