, 1860-10-19
Advertisements---Historical.


[From the London Quarterly Review for July, is55l
We have referred to the taste for blackamoors,
which set in in the reign Of Charles H., and went
on increasing until the middle Of the next cen
tury, at which time there must have been very
considerable population Of negro servants in the
metropolis At first the picturesque natives
Of the East were pressed into the service Of the
nobility and gentry, and colour does not appear
to have been sine qua non. Thus we have in
the London Gazette of 1858 the following hue
and cry advertisement
ID UN away from his master, Captain st. Lo,
! III the 2lst instant, 0bdelah Ealias Abraham,
Moor, swarthy complexion, short frizzled hair,
gold ring in his car in black coat and blew
breccheS. lie took with him blew Turkish
watch-gown, Turkish suit Of clothing that he
used 70 wear about town, and several other
things. Whoever brings him to Mr. Lozeps
house in Green Street shall have one guinea for
bis charges.
The next advertisement we find also relates
10 what we must consider. an East Indian. The
notion Of property in these boys seems to have
be complete; their masters put their names
upon their collars as they did upon their settlers
or spaniels;-
A BLACK boy, an Indian, about thirteen
IA years old, run away the Sth instant from
Putney, with collar about his neck with this
inscriptionl THE Lady Bromheld's black in
Lincoln's Inn Fields Whoever brings him to
Sir Edward Bromfelds at Putney shall have a
guinea reward.-The london Gd-fte, 1894.
The traffic in African blacks, which com
menced towards the end OC the seventeenth CEN
tury, seems to have displaced these eastern SER
vitors towards the end Of the century, for hence
forth the word negro, blackamoOr, or blackboy,
is invariably used No doubt the fashion for
these negroes, aud other colored attendants, was
derived from the Venetian Republic, the inter-
course Of whose merchants with Africa and India
naturally led to their introduction. Titan and
o her great painters of his school continually
introduced them in their pictures, and our own
great bard has for ever associated the Moor with
the CITY in the Sea. In England the negro boys
appear to have been considered as much articles
Of sale as they would have been in the slave
marketa at Constantinople. In tho 'Tatler' Of
1909 We find one offered to the public in the
following terms:-
A BLACK boy, twelve years Of aga, it to
N wait on gentleman, to be disposed Of at
Denis's CoiIee-house in Finch Lane, near the
Royal Exchange.
Again, in the Daily Journal Of September
2sth, l52s, We light upon another -
rINO be sold, negro boy, aged eleven years.
u Enquire Of the Virginia CIifee-house in
Threcdneedle Street, behind the Royal Ex-
change.
These were the ovcrflowings Of that Infamous
traffic in negroes, commenced by Sir John
HaN kns in the year 1850, which toreifronl their
homes, and transferred to Jamaica alone. no less
than 10000 Africans between that time and
the year l7s6, when the slave-trade was abol
ished.
The only signs Of the political tendencies Of
the time to be gathered from the sources we are
pursuing, are the party dinners, announcements
Of which are nov and then to DO met with as
follows -
HTNO THE J0YOUS.-The Bloods arc desired
IL to meet together at the house known by the
name Of Sir Hugh Middleton, near Saddlers
Wells, lsington, which Mr. Skeggs has procured
for that day for the better entertainment Of those
Gentlemen who agreed to meet at his own house.
Dinner will be on the Table punctually at two
o'cock.-Gsneal Adretiser Jan 18th, l74s.
Or the following still more characteristic ex-
ample rom tne same paper o. Aprn ~
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| ibe snpiyerssry Of the glorious BatNe Of Colo.
den, the Stars will assemble in the Moon at six
IN the evening. Therefore the Choice Spirits
arc arc aes'ieq 70 InaNe 'he'r appearance anu MI up
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