Show the the tro iZes in morocco says the london chronicle serve as a re minder that a slang word which at one time was very familiar as ap piled plied not to a moor in particular but to any man of color Is now obsolete except as an odd public house sign that is otherwise black moor in the early georgian era blace amoor 1 e negro footmen and pages were mere corn com mon in london in the households of the most fashionable people early in the eighteenth century the bust of a was largely employ ed ed by tobacconists as a sign and it still survives here and there the blacka blac kamoo moot then divided the honor of announcing a tobacco shop with the red indian attired in a petticoat of tobacco leaves and the scotch highlander in the act of taking snuff many effigies ot of blacka moors which were so cumbrous as to constitute a public danger were compulsorily re moed in london by virtue of an act that was passed early in the reign of eorge III |