(1) I’m a chronicler of Negroland, a participant-observer, an elegist, dissenter and admirer: sometime expatriate, ongoing interlocutor,” Margo Jefferson declares in her book Negroland .
Elegit
Definition:
(n.) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired.