Samboe

Quick meaning: Samboe is a noun meaning Alternative form of Sambo (“person who is three-quarters black”).

Meaning

Alternative form of Sambo (“person who is three-quarters black”).

Example Sentences

"A samboe," says he, "is the nearest remove from black, being the child of a mulatto father and a negro woman, or vice versa; a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress;" .. Among all these names, hard to pronounce and harder to remember, the samboe or mongrel, as it is oftener called, the mulatto and the mustee, are the only distinctions between the black and white that really pass current, though more have been defined;

Word Forms

• samboes

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