Vulgar words in Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 (Page 1)
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Dey bust out cussin', but what did a bee keer about cuss words!
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My brother and I used to scrap over who should scratch and rub her feet.
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I ain't never hear Marse Henry cuss but once an' dat wus de time dat some gentlemens come ter de house an' sez dat dar am a war 'twixt de north an' de south.
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He sez den, 'Let de damn yaller bellied Yankees come on an' we'll give 'em hell an' sen' dem a-hoppin' back ter de north in a hurry.'
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The overseers and patterollers in the time of slavery were called poor white trash by the slaves.
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I knowed some pore white trash; our oberseer wuz one, an' de shim shams[3] wuz also nigh 'bout also.
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Marse yells back, 'God damn de Yankees', an' he slaps big Mose a sumerset right outen de do'.
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He wuz struttin' 'roun' de yard showin' off, when Leonard Allen say under his breath, 'Look at dat God damn sojer.
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He say, I say, 'Look at dat God damn sojer.
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De oberseer, whose name I'se plumb forget, wuz pore white trash an' he wuz meaner dan de meanest nigger.
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Yes, we seed the patterollers, we called 'em pore white trash, we also called patterollers pore white pecks.
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Dey ain't had no slaves 'cept seben or eight, in fact, dey wuz pore white trash tryin' ter git rich; so dey make us wuck.
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She plowed a hateful little donkey dat wuz about as hongry as she wuz, an' he wuz a cuss if'en dar eber wuz one.
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Atter so long a time de rich folkses tried ter hire, er make de po' white trash go in dere places, but some of dem won't go.
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When dey goes ter de kitchen whar mammy am cookin' she cuss dem out an' run dem outen her kitchen.
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He aint never whup ner cuss me an' do we had our fusses an' our troubles we trusted in de Lawd an' we got through.
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De only patterollers I knowed wuz Kenyan Jones an' Billy Pump an' dey wuz called po' white trash.
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Long then flew into a rage and cursed my father saying, 'you damn black son of a bitch, you think you are white do you?
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Sometimes he'd lose his temper an' cuss, den he'd say right quick, 'God forgive me, I pray.'
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De Yankees said, 'You have saved dis ole son of a bitch, we won't kill' em den.'
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He pulled out a large pistol an' sed, 'Tell me whur dem horses is or I will take your damn sweet life.'
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He said, he called dat spunk.