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juba  n.  A dance developed by slaves in the U. S., having a lively tune and accompanied by a complex rhythmic clapping, and by slapping the thighs. "Wild crap-shooters with a whoop and a call Danced the juba in their gambling-hall."






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"Juba" Quotes from Famous Books



... for seven-up and loo, Chime in, niggers, won't you come 'long, too? No use talkin' when de nigger wants to go, Where de corn top blossoms and canebrakes grow. Come 'long, Cuba, and dance de polka juba, Way down South, where ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Texas Narratives, Part 1 • Works Projects Administration

... maculations, hem, quantis facultatibus aestimavere ligneas maculas! as Tertullian crys out, de Pallio, c, 5. Such a table was that of Cicero's, which cost him 10000 Sesterces; such another had Asinius Gallus. That of King Juba was sold for 15000, and another which I read of, valu'd at 140000 H.S. which at about 3d. sterling, arrives to a pretty sum; and yet that of the Mauritanian Ptoleme, was far richer, containing four foot and an ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn

... writers and Portuguese navigators placed a nation of pigmies; and in this it would appear that they were correct. After the junction of the Omo, the Gochob pursues its way by Ganana to the sea at Juba, a few miles to the south of the equator. The western bank is inhabited by Galla tribes, and the eastern by Somauli. In this part of its course it is called Jub by the Arabians, Gowend or Govend by the Somauli, Yumbu by the Souahilis, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various



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