Sentence examples for a negro plot from inspiring English sources

Cornelis Kortright (Generation 5) owned slaves accused of participating in a "Negro plot" in 1741.

Lepore's account is vivid and provocative; she evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness — the smell of the city is almost palpable — and shows how, at a time when one in five New Yorkers was a slave, the "Negro Plot" trials shaped the colonists' vision of liberty.

From "The Weary Blues": I heard a Negro play.

One is a Negro couple.

A Negro named James Milteer started Contact.

But a Negro don't know he's a Negro.

I wanted to prevent myself from becoming merely a Negro; or, even, merely a Negro writer.

I was a Negro above all else, and Negroes plays their part, too: Hiding.

And later, "A Negro is a Negro is a Negro" and a Jew is a, well, you know.

One went: "Once there was a Negro.

As a negro and as a woman".