Vulgar words in Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 (Page 1)
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Marster Sam kinda frown and say: 'Damn I feels like hell!
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Damn 'lectric toolin', I's gwine to leave.'
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When he git mad, he walk fast, dis way and dat way, and when he stop, would say terrible cuss words.
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Every Yankee I see had de stamp of poor white trash on them.
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I does not cuss, nohow, kaise it sho am wicked and I is had de Holy Spirit in my soul, now gone sixty-five years, since I jined Padgett Creek Church.
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White women in them days looked down on overseers as poor white trash.
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Marse Gregg, him 'low, always have more money and niggers than you could shake a stick at, more land than you could walk over in a day, and more cuss words than you could find in de dictionary.
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When it pass, him say: 'It's a damn humbug' and drop dead."
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They glare at each other and begin to talk harsh and cuss each other.
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No sir, he poor man but him come from good folks, not poor white trash.
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Old marster went to de field and cuss a nigger woman for de way she was workin', choppin' cotton.
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"My white folks was no poor white trash, I tells you!
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"De patrollers was nothin' but poor white trash, mammy say, and if they didn't whip some slaves, every now and then, they would lose deir jobs.
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It is the bugger man that does it."