Vulgar words in Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 (Page 1)
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They visit pappy's house after freedom, shake him, and threaten dat, if him didn't quit listenin' to them low-down white trash scalawags and carpetbaggers, they would come back and whale de devil out of him, and dat de Klan would take notice of him on 'lection day.
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I's proud of dat, and you can put down dere dat deres no poor white trash blood in dese old veins, too.
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"Was the overseer 'poor white trash?'"
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Durin' de war I see much of de soldiers who say they not quit fightin' 'til all de damn-Yankees am dead.
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After dat I see more and more of de damn-Yankees, as they pass through 'flictin' punishment on 'most everybody.
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Dey ain' been no poor white trash.
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"Well, I's been here mighty nigh a hundred years, and just 'cause I pinched and saved and didn't throw my money away on liquor, or put it into de palms of every Jezabel hussy dat slant her eye at me, ain't no valuable reason why them dat did dat way and 'joyed deirselves can get de pension and me can't get de pension.
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His pappy was a white man, and no poor white trash neither.
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Why de good white folks put up wid them poor white trash patarollers I never can see or understand.
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"Dat Attorney General turn up his coat in de November wind and say; 'I'll be damn!
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My marster had sheep, goats, mules, horses, stallion, jackass, cows and hogs, and then he had a gin, tan yard, spinnin' rooms, weave room, blacksmith shop and shoe shop.
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My Ma tell me when dey use to lick dem she use to sing dis song, 'do pray for me' en ma say w'en de lickin' got too hot she say 'oh God' en mossa say, 'show me dat damn man', den he say, 'I am your only God.
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They was big buckra, never 'sociate wid poor white trash.