1736 Canting Dictionary / B / BLACK-INDIES [place]
Newcastle, from whence the Coals are brought.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Black Indies in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).