Negro
Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
A black man; one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa and distinguished by certain physical characteristics, not including octoroons, mulattoes and persons of mixed blood.
See 126 La. 300, 13ff Am. St. Rep. 514, 20 Ann. Cas. 1297, 52 South. 500.