bush negro

bush negro
noun
Usage: usually capitalized B&N
Etymology: trans. of Dutch bosneger
: one of a people of African ancestry descended from runaway slaves and inhabiting the interior of the Guianas in So. America

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Bush Negro,
any individual of a people of Surinam (Dutch Guiana) descended from African slaves who escaped from the Dutch into the bush before slavery was abolished in the mid-1800's.

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