A negro. The usual word is DARKEY.
1815. Aye, even Blackey cries shame.—Moore, ‘Epistle to Tom Crib.’ (N.E.D.)
1824. The blackee, turning round suddenly, gave him a severe blow.—Nantucket Inquirer, March 8.
1834. A gang of dandy-looking blackees, each with an enormous cudgel.—C. F. Hoffman, ‘A Winter in the Far West,’ ii. 302 (Lond., 1835).
1834. “Who knows,” thought the clockmaker to himself, “but that Jared, who is a monstrous sly fellow, will pick up some southern heiress, with a thousand blackies, and an hundred acres of prime cotton-land to each, and thus ennoble the blood of the Bunces by a rapid ascent, through the various grades of office in a sovereign state, until a seat in Congress—in the cabinet itself—receives him."—W. G. Simms, ‘Guy Rivers,’ ii. 174 (N.Y., 1837).
1838. But the lengthening shadows reminded me that I was to visit some infirm negroes: as I advanced towards their houses, a little regiment of blackies, more willing and less ragged than Falstaff’s, came marching towards me, with the pride of childhood, to excite my attention.—Caroline Gilman, ‘Recollections of a Southern Matron,’ p. 107.
1839. A shopkeeper who stood at his door, surveying the spectacle, advised me to retreat before the negro had recovered his feet; assuring me that he (the blacky) would have me immediately taken up and carried before a magistrate; by whom I would be heavily fined for the liberty I had taken.—R. M. Bird, ‘Robin Day,’ i. 125 (Phila.).
1839. Some of the blackies whisked the young lady out of my hands.—Id., i. 167.
