Black Ones

« These creatures were black and naked, made like men, but the least of them, standing upright, would have towered head and shoulders above the tall pirate. They were rangy rather than massive, but were finely formed, with no suggestion of deformity or abnormality, save as their great height was abnormal. But even at that distance Conan sensed the basic diabolism of their features. (...) Conan mentally termed the creatures black men, for lack of a better term ; instinctively he knew these tall ebony beings were not men, as he understood the term. »

Robert E. Howard - The Pool of the Black One