Vulgar words in Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 (Page 1)
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Mr. Ross say, 'Won' none of dem damn Yankees get no chance to stick dey rotten tooth in my rations.'
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No, Lord, people own home don' never stop to cuss dem no time.
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Mr. Evans wasn't no po' white trash, but he was kinder middlin' like.
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How is I gwine to ever teach you anything, when you act jest like a nigger from some pore white trashes poor land?'
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In 1861, my marsters go away with their neighbors, to fight the damn Yankees and the plantation was left in charge of the mistresses and worked by the slaves.
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The overseer was "poor white trash".
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Pa Cudjo say, he pray en he cuss en when he look up, he see a boat makin up de river wid two men in it en me lyin dere 'tween dem.
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Pa Cudjo say, when he see me, he been so happy, he pray en he cuss.
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Dar was a nigger wid wooden bottom shoes, dat stuck to dem Yankees and other po' white trash 'round dar.
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When freedom come, de master come to us and told us de damn Yankees done freed us, 'what you gwinter do?
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She said: "dat damn white, pale-face bastard sell my daughter who jus' married las' night," an' other t'ings.
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When I got to the white man in charge, he eye me and zay: 'What damn rebel did you slave for?'
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I forgot 'bout what I am there for and I say: 'I never slave for no damn rebel.
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"Then the aid man say: 'Dat damn rebel Hammond and all lak him yet unhung, should be, and you wid him.
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You know my secon' husband was bad after blind tiger liquor, and harlot eyed, brassy, hussy women.
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General Bratton call him, 'My Little Jackass of de Sharp Shooters'!
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Dere used to be some scrappin' over de pot liquor dat was brought out in big pans.
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He been poor white trash, but he wuk haa'd and save he money and buy slave.
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He poor white trash but he daid now.
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(On Waccamaw--and same true of all south as all know--white overseers worst kind of 'White trash'--respected less by negroes than by whites) Nigger obersheer don't care too much.
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All the time cuss!