Harry McMillan Quotes
We call each other colored people, black people, but not negro…
Thus testimony was an example of one of the reasons that Black Americans lobbied to end the use of the word, Negro, in official documents to describe them. “Negro” was a term used by whites to describe Blacks but rarely used by Blacks until Reconstruction. A century later, cultural and official language went back to the language that the slaves had used to describe each other and added “African American” as well.
Harry McMillan, Mid 19th Century, Former Slave of Southern General Eustis, Testimony to the Freedman’s Commission, Beaufort, S.C. June 1863, Testimony of a South Carolina Freedman before the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission
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