Word: seabrook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many white men really like black men. But Faustin Wirkus, lately of the U. S. Marines stationed in Haiti, likes them; and Traveler Seabrook likes them ''on the whole . . . better than whites." These two not entirely unvarnished narratives should clarify much current opinion of unvarnished, kinky-haired Negroes; neither book mentions Harlem...
Among the Habbe cliff-dwellers Seabrook found everything topsy-turvy. A thief is punished with death, for they argue that if he steals once he will do it again, and as no one keeps his valuables locked up, stealing must be kept down. But if a man commits murder they all mourn with him, then he departs on a three-year exile. When he comes back the murdered man's nearest relative and the murderer's next of kin procreate a child, who is given the murdered man's name; then they call quits...