The Devil's Dictionary: Minstrel

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
MINOR
MIRACLE

MINSTREL

-adj.

Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear.

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