Vulgar words in Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Oklahoma Narratives (Page 1)

This book at a glance

cuss x 6
damn x 2
knocked up x 1
spunk x 1
white trash x 12
            

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Dem railroaders was honest, and dey didn't take no presents, but de patrollers was low white trash!

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She worked at de big house and she stole something for him to give dat low white trash I reckon, 'cause de next day he played sick along in de evening and de black overlooker--he was my uncle--sent him back to de quarters.

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Sometime I would keep the flies off'n old Master, and when I would get tired and let the bresh slap his neck he would kick at me and cuss me, but he never did reach me.

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But dey was some low white trash and some devilish niggers made out like dey was Ku Klux ranging 'round de country stealing hosses and taking things.

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The man from New York said, "None of your damn business, but you ain't got money nuff to buy 'er."

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He gloried in they spunk.

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Some fellow knocked up a colored woman or something and we waded right in and believe me we made Atlanta a fit place to live in.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,533   ~   ~   ~

Close to our Master's plantation lived several families of old "poor white trash" who would steal me Master's hogs and chickens and come and tell me Mistress dat dey seen some of de slaves knock one of dere hogs in de head.

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Dis continued up till Master returned from de War and caught de old white trash stealing his hogs.

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All of us niggers called all the whites "poor white trash."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,726   ~   ~   ~

The overseer was nothing but poor white trash and the meanest man that ever walked on earth.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,009   ~   ~   ~

They was all masked up and everybody crawled under the benches when they shouted: "We'll make you damn niggers wish you wasn't free!"

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,659   ~   ~   ~

And then--then he'd just seem to be riled with anger and lay down the law of the Lord between cuss-words that all the slaves could understand.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,700   ~   ~   ~

Master Astern and his son jest told us niggers what to do and we did it, but 50 miles away dem niggers had a mean overseer, and dey called him "poor white trash", "old whooser", and sometime "old red neck", and he would sho' beat 'em turrible iffen dey didn't do jest like he wanted 'em to.

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He wasn't nothing but white trash.

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Bushwhacker, nothing but poor white trash, come thoo' and killed all the little nigger chillun they could lay hands on.

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The overseer was sho' nothing but poor white trash, the kind who didn't lak niggers and dey still don't, old devils.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,529   ~   ~   ~

De patroller was low white trash what jest wanted a excuse to shoot niggers.

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That make him so mad he jest stand and holler and cuss.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,096   ~   ~   ~

Old Brown say de boiler weak and it liable to bust, but old Master jump down off'n his hoss and go 'round to de boiler and say, "Cuss fire to your black heart!

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Throw on some cordwood, cuss fire to your heart!"

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"Dis is Tom, and Bryan, and Bob, and Miss Betty, and you is to call 'em dat, and don't you ever call one of 'em Young Master or Young Mistress, cuss fire to your black hearts!"

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