Africans
People of Africa and of African descent, as the writers name them, many of them brought to the Americas as slaves. Gage calls them Blackmores.
How Chocolate Is Made and Drunk
Thomas Gage, The English-American, or A New Survey of the West Indies (London, 1648), chapter 16: chocolate and atole · printed at London, 1648 (Gage lived in New Spain and Guatemala from 1625 to 1637)
All these ingredients are usually put into the Chocolatte, and by some more, according to their fancies. But the meaner sort of people, as Blackmores and Indians, commonly put nothing into it, but Cacao, Achiotte, Maiz, and a few Chiles with a little Anniseed.
All these ingredients are usually put into chocolate, and by some people more, according to their fancies. But the poorer sort of people, such as Blackamoors and Indians, commonly put nothing into it but cacao, achiote, maize, and a few chiles with a little aniseed.