Vulgar words in Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 (Page 1)
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The white man would say, 'I'm goin' to vote as I damn please.'
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We got up in there with our feet.
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The Yankees say, 'Let the damn fool alone--here we are tryin' to free her and she ain't got no sense.'
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'Why, I can see all over and whip all over, and that's as much as any damn man can do.'
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"The reason why so many slaves suffered as much as they did as a rule was not because of the masters but because of the poor white trash overseers.
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They told the one that asked that it was a damn nigger that owed money back in Louisiana and got smart and run away without paying up.
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Patrollers "Me and old lady Eford would be out in the yard and I would hear her cuss the pateroles because they didn't want folks to 'buse their niggers.
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We would hear the hounds baying after them and old lady Eford would stand out in the yard and cuss them--cuss the hounds I mean.