Craig White's Literature Courses Terms / Themes Blackamoor

Oxford English Dictionary: Blackamoor (now archaic & offensive)

etymology: Black + Moor < originally a native or inhabitant of North Africa, as in Shakespeare's Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (1603)

1. A black African; an Ethiopian (obs.); (also) any dark-skinned person.

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