blackman

plural blackmen

1. alternativenonstandardAlternative form of black man.

   Australia’s true history is never read, But the blackman keeps it in his head.

   1971, Bill Day, aboriginal poem

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   On the summit of a hill they were seen by my fathers, my countrymen, on the top of the hill they were seen standing: they threw fire like a star,—it fell amongst the blackmen my countrymen.

   1859, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, page 274

   “Recognised and compensated,” will both these condition[s] be occupied by the blackman in the world forty years hence?

   1912, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, volume XI, Duke University Press, published 2011, page 44

   It is nearly a century since DuBois described the condition of the blackman thus […]

   1990, Wole Soyinka, The Blackman and the Veil, SEDCO, published 1993, page 3

plural Blackmans

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States.