They use negro in an 1805 geography book I have....mentions wooly like curly hair.
“They use negro in an 1805 geography book I have....[....]”
“African” is the terminology customarily used to designate Negoe and other indiginous populations in Kenya who are not descendants of the races designated by the former colonial government as “Europeans”. The colonial government discriminated against marriages between “Africans” and “Europeans” by making such marriages unlawful and subject to annulment. Decades after the end of the colonial government, the post-colonial government of Kenya continued to annul such so-called inter-racial marriages. Kenyans and other Sub-Saharan African nations and societies are accustomed to thinking of racial designations as being European versus African. The fact that the evidently fraudulent Obama birth certificates used the term “African” as the entry for race may reasonably be interpreted as having been supplied by a person who was accustomed to thinking of Obama’s race as “African” in accordance with Kenyan and Sub-Saharan African customs rather than Negroe as required by the U.S. Federal regulations. Obama is of course one person of Kenyan descent who would be accustomed to using the Kenyan terminology instead of the proper U.S. Federal terminology required in 1961.
I just assumed it was what the Spanish traders called them after the spanish word for black.