WOMAN. / MR. LEDYARD, AS QUOTED BY M. PARK IN HIS TRAVELS / INTO AFRIC / To a woman I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship [...] and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsels with a double relish.

Place the white man on Afric’s coast, / whose swarthy sons in blood delight, / WHo of their scorn to Europe boast, / An paint their demons very white…

GEORGE CRABBE / 1810