The 448 occurrences of white trash
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You may fit all you wanter--I ain' sayin' nuttin' agin yo' fittin ef yo' spleen hit's up--but you could er foun' somebody ter fit wid back at home widout comin' out hyer ter git yo'se'f a-jumbled up wid all de po' white trash in de county.
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For the People remembered that between "Andrew Johnson," one of the "poor white trash" of Tennessee, and the "aristocratic Slave-owners" of the South, who headed the Rebellion, there could be neither sympathy nor cooperation--nothing, but hatred; and that this same Andrew Johnson, who, by power of an indomitable will, self-education, and natural ability, had, despite the efforts of that "aristocracy," forced himself upward, step by step, from the tailor's bench, to the successful honors of alderman and Mayor, and then still upward through both branches of his State Legislature, into the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States--and, in the latter Body, had so gallantly met, and worsted in debate, the chosen representatives of that class upon whose treasonable heads he poured forth in invective, the gathered hatred of a life-time--would probably be the very last man whom these same "aristocratic" Conspirators, "Rebels, and Traitors," would prefer as arbiter of their fate.
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For the People remembered that between "Andrew Johnson," one of the "poor white trash" of Tennessee, and the "aristocratic Slave-owners" of the South, who headed the Rebellion, there could be neither sympathy nor cooperation--nothing, but hatred; and that this same Andrew Johnson, who, by power of an indomitable will, self-education, and natural ability, had, despite the efforts of that "aristocracy," forced himself upward, step by step, from the tailor's bench, to the successful honors of alderman and Mayor, and then still upward through both branches of his State Legislature, into the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States--and, in the latter Body, had so gallantly met, and worsted in debate, the chosen representatives of that class upon whose treasonable heads he poured forth in invective, the gathered hatred of a life-time--would probably be the very last man whom these same "aristocratic" Conspirators, "Rebels, and Traitors," would prefer as arbiter of their fate.
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Refugees in Kansas--Children of Want--Afflicted Family--Scenes of Distress--Agnes Everett--Quantrell's Raid--Poor White Trash-- Hospitals--Supplies Distributed--Refugee Buildings--Orphan Children-- Haviland Home--Thomas Dean a Prisoner--Petition for Pardon--Pardon Granted--A Southern Clergyman--Mission School--At Harper's Ferry and Washington.
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She said, these poor white trash would curse me in health, and when they thought they were going to die, they were ready then to send for me to pray for them; and, as I was tired enough to rest after teaching all day, she did not think I ought to go for their calls.
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"Look at your own people--poor white trash--how lazy and shiftless they are.
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When he arose and went back along the street to the station master's house and when the woman there looked at him reproachfully and muttered words about the poor white trash of the town, he was ashamed and looked at the floor.
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She had called his people lazy louts and poor white trash and had railed against his inclination to dreams.
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By struggle and work he had conquered the dreams but could not conquer his ancestry, nor change the fact that he was at bottom poor white trash.
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I'd most got dar w'en a bunch ob low white trash jumped me.
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I wan't goin' ter let no low down white trash git all dat money."
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"I sho' don't want nobody to think I go trapsin' 'round wid any low white trash."
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Mentally, he observed: "Po' white trash!"
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His first impression of the boy in the stained suit, slouch hat, and patched overcoat, was much the same as that which the Pullman porter had mentally summed up as, "Po' white trash"; but the Yiddish shopman could not place his prospective customer under any head or type with which he was familiar.
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With the wonderful music of the great organ at the tabernacle sounding in your ears, and the lofty temple near by towering to the sky, you say to yourself, there is, after all, something solemn and impressive in all this; but when a greasy apostle in an alapaca duster, takes his place behind the elevated desk, and with bad grammar and slangy sentences, asks God in a businesslike way to bless this buzzing mass of unclean, low-browed, barbarous scum of all foreign countries, and the white trash and criminals of our own, you find no reverence, and no religious awe.
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The waiter was certainly the most worthless, trifling, half-asleep combination of Senegambian stupidity and poor white trash indolence and awkwardness that I ever saw.
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I drawed dat han' spike on dem Abolishioners an' I says: 'You low doun stinkin' po' white trash.
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Three weeks ago a family named Johnson, the most shiftless in the county, the real low-down white trash sort, living on a truck patch out Rollinson's way, heard that Henry was on a toot in town, spending money freely, and they went after him.
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The old woman was proudly indignant, "Dem po'r triflin' white trash!
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He--he--" And the black woman's deep voice rolled out--"Yo' go on now--yo' two, 'tain't so--'cause Adam he sho po'r white trash.
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"What does your mother mean," he cried, savagely, "by letting you run barefooted around the country just like poor white trash?
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"What does your mother mean," he cried, savagely, "by letting you run barefooted around the country just like poor white trash?
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With Slavery removed, the best part of our army will remain upon the fertile soil and in the genial climate of the South, forming communities, retaining their arms, keeping peace and good order with no need of a standing army, and constituting the _nuclei_ around which the poor-white trash of the South would gather to be educated in the labor-system of the North, and thus, and thus only, to become loyal citizens.
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Looks like I cain't do nothin' for my own woman--a-givin' an' a-givin' to Huldy, like she was some po' white trash, some beggar!"
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It had gone all over both Turkey Tracks that Sam Overholt declared he would never darken Pap Overholt's door again--Pap Overholt, who had tried to make a pauper of him, loading him with gifts and benefits, like he was shif'less, no-'count white trash!
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The negro is to be left powerless in the hands of the "white trash," who hate him with a bitter hatred, exceeding that of the large slave-holders.
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The negro is to be left powerless in the hands of the "white trash," who hate him with a bitter hatred, exceeding that of the large slave-holders.
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The negro is to be left powerless in the hands of the "white trash," who hate him with a bitter hatred, exceeding that of the large slave-holders.
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"Poor white trash!" he jeered.
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We're nothing but pore white trash; that's what we are!"
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Poor white trash!
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Nance pondered the matter for a while silently; then she asked suddenly: "Say, Dan, if folks are borned poor white trash, they don't have to go on bein' it, do they?"
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Here for immediate ancestry we have a mother, from heaven knows what European refuse heap, arrived in an immigrant ship--father of the 'pore white trash' of the south--result: Harietta, fine points, beautiful, quite a lady for ordinary purposes.
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These whites, whom the negroes usually termed "white trash," were, as a general thing, the most vicious, brutal, thieving, shiftless, and lazy human beings imaginable.
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An intelligent Christian man would not have such a position under any circumstances, and the very best of the "poor white trash" who _would_, were unreliable and brutish; therefore Mr. Thompson had to do the very best he could under the circumstances.
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Scofield looked upon Gaunt as one of the saints upon earth, but he "danged him" after that once or twice to himself for doubting the girl; and when Bone, who had heard it, "guessed Mist' Dode 'd never fling herself away on sich whinin' pore-white trash," his master said nothing in reproof.
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on account of a boy-and-girl affair five years ago, this half-strainer, this poor-white trash, has actually had the presumption, sir,--but I don't doubt that Pat has told you all about it?"
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Lichfield felt that only showed what came of treating poor-white trash as your equals, and gloried in the salutary moral.
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Pa and I drew up to the first table, but there was a yell to "put 'em out," and we found we had sat down to the table of the negro canvasmen, and they struck because they would not associate on an equality with white trash.
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The band played, "There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town To-night," and pa's crowd of white trash marched around the big outside ring shouting, "Bryan!
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Pa dropped his lantern and began to fight hornets, and then all the white trash in pa's bunch rushed up and began to whack my poor downtrodden negroes with their Chinese lanterns.
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We was common folk, Mr. Ajax, what they would call in the South--white trash, an' the Standishes was real quality.
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don't mind that darkey, he belongs to po'r white trash."
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They go on the principle that the white trash who will sell their country need only to be paid with kicks and coppers.
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He is often as worthless as the "white trash" he so scornfully despises, and he is often all that the most exacting could expect, when his surroundings and disadvantages are taken into consideration.
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Down South to-day the expression "po' white trash" is still full of meaning, and the words are uttered by the thick-lipped, woolly-headed critics with an emphasis and expression the very best white mimic has never yet succeeded in reproducing.
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White trash, we call them; men with no abilities, whose foolish pride makes them think it's mean to work.
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It's dat po' white trash dey call Plooie.
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"Not yit, but dey wos gwine to," said Peggy, "but I seed 'em, an' I tore down de road to de gate whar dey wos gittin ready to fight, an' I jes' let dat dar Mister Crof' know wot low-down white trash Miss Rob think he wos, an' den he said ef dat war so 'twant no use fur to come in, an' he turn' roun' de buggy, an' cl'ar'd out.
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It would be a great mistake to suppose that the volunteers are drawn, to any extent whatever, from the "poor white trash."
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They were generally worthless, dissipated, dangerous, low white trash.
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It was all the same old poor white trash.
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Now Jim Smith, poor white trash, attempted to assault Will Thomas' daughter.
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But while in New England there was no lower class or society sharply marked off from the upper, on the other hand in Virginia there was an insurmountable distinction between the owners of plantations and the so-called "mean whites" or "white trash."
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He hired me out with some old poor white trash.
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A subtle social distinction brewed in the black race to separate house servants from field hands as far as wealthy planters from "poor white trash.".)
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Of the assailing party two others also were beyond aid, one a young planter who had joined the party some miles back beyond St. Genevieve, the other a sallow example of the "poor white trash" who made a certain part of the population of the lower country.
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"The reason why so many slaves suffered as much as they did as a rule was not because of the masters but because of the poor white trash overseers.
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"Now lots o' coon darkies dey uster steal de youn' Mockers jes' afore dey lef' de nest and sell 'em to white trash dat ud tote 'em down the ribber an' sell 'em agin in N'Orleans, to be fetched off in ships.
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We had no white trash for neighbors.
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She longed to teach them to read, for many of them were pining for the knowledge which the "poor white trash" rejected; but the laws of the State not only prohibited the teaching of slaves, but provided fines and imprisonment for those who ventured to indulge their fancy in that way.
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I knowed de oberseer was nothin' but po' white trash, jes a tramp.
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I's tellin' you de trufe, us didn' b'long to no white trash.
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Dey larruped de hide of'n de uppity Niggers an' driv[FN: drove] de white trash back where dey b'longed.
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Marster bought all de little places 'roun' us so he wouldn' have no po' white trash neighbors.
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Twas dem po' white trash overseers an' agents.
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On top o' all dat de whole country was over-run an' plumb took over by white trash.
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Cheap white trash, clearly.
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It gives but a poor description of the "poor-white trash" to say that they cannot read.
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Now the world is a dreffle mean place, for our sins, Where ther' ollus is critters about with long pins A-prickin' the globes we've blowcd up with sech care, An' provin' ther' 's nothin' inside but bad air: They're all Stuart Millses, poor-white trash, an' sneaks, Without no more chivverlry 'n Choctaws or Creeks, Who think a real gennleman's promise to pay Is meant to be took in trade's ornery way: Them fellers an' I couldn' never agree; They're the nateral foes o' the Southun Idee; I'd gladly take all of our other resks on me To be red o' this low-lived politikle 'con'my!
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They knew they were to have lordly times among the poor white trash.
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"Oh, Miché, we have said that five times already, and his answer--you will pardon me--his answer is--spitting on the ground--that you are a contemptible _dotchian_ (white trash)."
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He thinks this was due to the fact that certain "po white trash" in the vicinity of their plantation owned slaves.
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It was, he further stated like "damning a nigger's soul, if Marse Tom or Marse Bryant threatened to sell him to some po' white trash.
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She described his mother as a "proud piece," almost putting her down on a level with "poor white trash," which wuz the deepest depth her plummet of contumely could reach.
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Cain, he went to de land o' Nod just as de Good Book tells us, an' in de land o' Nod Cain gits so lazy an' so shif'less dat he up an' marries a gal o' one o' dem no' count pore white trash families dat de inspired apostle didn't consider fittin' to mention in de Holy Word."
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We all knows as how teachers is de meanest kine of white trash gwine; still, I specs you might'ly.
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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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Many of the domiciles are frame and have the happy tumbledown look of the back streets in Charleston or Richmond--those streets where the white trash merges off into prosperous colored aristocracy.
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"Po' white trash from the gullies," he said, "no, they don't count one way or the other."
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We always got along fine with the children of the slave owners but none of the colored people would have anything to do with the 'poor white trash' who were too poor to own slaves and had to do their own work.
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De overseer wuz poor white trash.
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We used to have fights with the 'white trash' sometimes and once I was hit by a rock throwed by a white boy and that's what this lump on my head is.
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We imagine that they were mostly poor white trash, of Tennessee.
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Now the world is a dreffle mean place, for our sins, Where ther' ollus is critters about with long pins 120 A-prickin' the bubbles we've blowed with sech care, An' provin' ther' 's nothin' inside but bad air: They're all Stuart Millses, poor-white trash, an' sneaks, Without no more chivverlry 'n Choctaws or Creeks, Who think a real gennleman's promise to pay Is meant to be took in trade's ornery way: Them fellers an' I couldn' never agree; They're the nateral foes o' the Southun Idee; I'd gladly take all of our other resks on me To be red o' this low-lived politikle 'con'my!
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Before it was a man of the class which the darkies were wont to designate as "pore white trash."
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This Filipino girl had heard me use the expression "poor white trash," and I had explained to her how the Southern negroes use the words as a term of derision of those who fail to live up to the traditions of race and family.
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The master, Mr. Buckner, along with several of his relatives had purchased a large tract of land in Green County, Kentucky and by a custom or tradition as Dr. Buckner remembers; land owners that owned no slaves were considered "Po' White Trash" and were scarcely recognized as citizens within the state of Kentucky.
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A few were gentlemen, one must admit, but the regular run of them were trash--commoner than the 'poor white trash'--and, if possible, their children were worse than their daddies.
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The overseers warn't quality white folkses like our marster and mistess but we never heard nuffin' 'bout no poor white trash in them days, and effen we had heard sumpin' like that we'd have knowed better'n to let Marster hear us make such talk!
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But I'se gwine tell you de trufe, he sho' wuz poor white trash wid a house full of snotty-nose chilluns.
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Was the overseer "poor white trash"?
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"Jes pore white trash, dat Wilson," said Rachel, contemptuously, as she coaxed the kindling into a blaze.
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but I's glad it wan't dem white trash from de town.
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What did they want with such things where there was no white trash so forgetful of his superiority as to consent to work by their side.
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How much productive industry would there be in New England, if every laborer or mechanic cost his employer $800 to $1500 before he could be set to work, and if each one who undertook to labor upon his own account, and was not so purchased, were stigmatized and degraded and termed 'mean white trash?'
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These men have by their system rendered labor degrading,--they have driven out their non-slaveholding neighbors by hundreds of thousands to find homes and self-respect in the free air of the great West,--they have reduced those who remain to a condition of ignorance scarcely to be found in any other country claiming to be civilized--so low that even the slaves look down upon the 'mean white trash,'--they have sapped the very foundations of honor and morality, so that 'Southern chivalry' has become the synonym for treachery, theft, and dishonor in every form,--they have reached a depth of degradation only to be equalled by those Northern men who would now prevent this war from utterly destroying slavery,--they have literally skinned over a vast area of country, leaving it for the time a desert, and with an area of 368,312,320 acres in the eight cotton States, they have now under cultivation in cotton less than 6,000,000 (an area scarcely larger than the little State of Massachusetts); they have less than two slave laborers to the square mile; and their only opposition to the re-opening of the African slave-trade is upon the ground that an increase of laborers will but reduce the price of cotton, give the planters a great deal more trouble and less profit, and only benefit their enemies in New and Old England.
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Now, this was a suggestion that had not before occurred to the picket guard, and Tom would have been infinitely wiser if he had not put the idea of assisting him into their dull brains; for it is not at all probable that they would have thought of such a thing themselves, for the south, especially the poor white trash, are not largely endowed with inventive genius.
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"Poor white trash," he said between his teeth, "and Henry's daughter!"