Vulgar words in The Beginnings of New England - Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty (Page 1)
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Neither were there many of the wretched people, kidnapped from the jails and slums of English sea-ports, such as in those early days when negro labour was scarce, were sent by ship-loads to Virginia, to become the progenitors of the "white trash."
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Their denizens may in many instances be the degenerate offspring of a sound New England stock, but they sometimes show strong points of resemblance to that "white trash" which has come to be a recognizable strain of the English race; and one cannot help suspecting that while the New England colonies made every effort to keep out such riff raff, it may nevertheless have now and then crept in.
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He found fault with Bellingham's conduct as too gentle; if he had been there he would have had the hussies flogged.