plain people n.
(US black) white people.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Americanisms 281: It is said that the freedmen, in the first glow of their rights, proposed to call the Whites Plain People, in return for the term Colored People, by which they were designated themselves . |
(US black) white people.
| Americanisms 281: It is said that the freedmen, in the first glow of their rights, proposed to call the Whites Plain People, in return for the term Colored People, by which they were designated themselves . |