Vulgar words in Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 (Page 1)
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His master learnt him in books and to how to cuss.
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"Her master often said, 'I'll drink myself to death before I'll go to war and be shot down like a damn target.'
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She said in living with them in the house, she learned to cuss from him.
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She would be locked up in the seed bin and she would cuss the preacher out so he could hear her.
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Her bed was a teaster--way high up, had a big stool to step on to go up in there and she had it curtained off.
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A subtle social distinction brewed in the black race to separate house servants from field hands as far as wealthy planters from "poor white trash.".)
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They sure did cuss him: 'The ----, ----, ----, old senator,' they would say.
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He just said: 'Every damn horse goes.'
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"They hanged a Ku Klux for killing his wife and he said he didn't mind being hung but he didn't want a damn nigger to see him die.
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I don't like to hear nobody cuss.