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Show The Blackamoor. Vflfl Tho troiiftes In Morocco, says tho flflj London Chronicle, servo as a re-v flflj minder that a slang word which at IJ ono tlmo was very familiar, as np- 'flflj plied not to a Moor, in particular, 'flflj but to any man ot "color," is now fll obsolcto, except as an odd public flflj houso sign. That is "blackamoor," flflj othcrwlso "black Moor." In tho early flflj Georgian era "blackamoor" I. o., flflj negro, footmen and pages were com- IJ mon in London In tho households of flflj tho most fashionable pcoplo. Early jflVJ In the eighteenth century tho buBt flflj of a blackamoor was largely employ- jflflj cd by tobacconists as a Blgn, and It flflj still survives hero and there. Tho flflj blackamoot' then divided tho honor flfll ot announcing a tobacco shop with HH tho rod Indian attired In a petticoat flflj of tobacco leaves and tho Scotch jflflj Highlandor In tho act of taking Bnuff, jflflj Many effigies of blackamoors which HH woro so cumbrous as to constitute a HH public danger wcro compulsorlly re- flflj moved in London by vlrtuo ot an act lfl that was passed early in tho reign of flflj Georgo III. flJJ |