A Kaoli or Korean girl

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Yeh Tzu-Ch'i: Ts'ao-mu-tzu (1378)
(The Book of the Fading-like-Grass Master)
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Taken from: L.C. Goodrich; Negroes in China; in Catholic university of Peking 1931

With the northerners (men living in the North),  maid servants were without fail Kao-li girls, man-servants were Negroes. Otherwise, they were said not to be perfect gentlemen.

Note: this text is referred to in articles:

-Ge Chengyong 葛承雍. 2006. "Tang chang'an heiren laiyuan xunzong" 唐長安黑人 來源尋踪 [The origin of black people in Chang'an City of the Tang dynasty]. Zhonghua wenshi luncong 中華文史論叢 65: 1–27.

-Li, J. 1982.“Examination of Kunlun Slaves in the Tang Dynasty.”Wenshi 6: 98–118.

Li Jiping 李季平. 1982. "Tangdai kunlunnukao" 唐代崑崙奴考 [A study of Kunlun slaves in the Tang dynasty]. Wenshi 文史 16: 292–98