"fellow" = "A black man"

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wilson jocularly uses the phrase "the colored fellow." Â (I assume it's
> jocular because of the old-fashioned sound.) That doesn't show that the word
> "fellow" means "black man" in current or even in recent English.

Preach!

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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-Mark Twain

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