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Shadow of the Plantation 57: There is pride in large families. ‘Good breeders’ are regarded with admiration.at breeder, n.
Shadow of the Plantation 57: There is pride in large families. ‘Good breeders’ are regarded with admiration. Shadow of the Plantation 34: The Yankees come through and said slavery’s done gone. Child, the niggers got to yelling and whooping all over the place.at child, n.
Shadow of the Plantation 175: ‘I had rather be dead and in my grave than have my children come up ignorant’.at come up, v.1
Shadow of the Plantation 169: ‘I want to remind you also how necessary it is to keep up insurances so that you won’t be a burden on other people when you come down to die’.at come down, v.2
Shadow of the Plantation 201: The health officer has corralled sixty-seven of these midwives and has been talking to them about cleanliness .at corral, v.
Shadow of the Plantation 64: ‘I’s cripple and ain’t able to lift nothing. When I says cripple dat means what you see, dat I’s going to have a baby’.at cripple, n.2
Shadow of the Plantation 55: The most desirable mates for girls in those families ambitious to maintain a stable unit are men who can assure further stability. Unfortunately for romantic love, the economic arrangement under which they live does not develop many eligibles for daughters of such families.at eligible, n.
Shadow of the Plantation 83: ‘I don’t go to them frolics. People git drunk and comes back and tries to show everybody who dey is’.at frolic, n.
Shadow of the Plantation 37: De peoples right up dere next to me [...] can’t git along wid nobody. No, I ain’t have no fuss wid ’em ‘cause I ain’t see no use.at fuss, v.
Shadow of the Plantation 81: ‘This here baby is my daughter’s baby [...] The father paid the doctor’s bills and give it clothes’.at it, n.1
Shadow of the Plantation 83: ‘See, when a fella’s got a gun in your face you gotter take low or die’.at take low (v.) under low, adj.
Shadow of the Plantation 83: You be workin’ and she goin’ ’round dressed up like “Miss Ann” when you go naked’.at Miss Ann (n.) under Miss, n.
Shadow of the Plantation 22: [T]he ‘salt-water nigger.’ They were the freshly imported Negroes from Africa toward whom the Negro slaves felt a pronounced superiority.at salt-water negro, n.
Shadow of the Plantation 194: ‘Two of my chillen die with ‘yellow thrash.’ I gived them thread salve made from yellow berries but they die right on.’ .at right on, adv.
Shadow of the Plantation 39: I plum’ out of all the ’cieties now. [...] I’ll have to join some others ‘cause my overcoat [coffin] cost too much’.at overcoat, n.
Shadow of the Plantation 183: Those who do not like what is covered by the community may ‘piddle around the house,’ ‘set on the porch and rock,’ ‘lay down and sleep’ .at piddle about (v.) under piddle, v.
Shadow of the Plantation 39: The white man got fretted so I pulled Dan’s coat tail. Miss———told us not to blame her ‘cause she only had letters for the people what give her they names.at pull someone’s coat (v.) under pull, v.
Shadow of the Plantation 64: ‘Girls what ain’t married don’t never ought to get deyselves no rainbow’.at rainbow, n.
Shadow of the Plantation 57: There are few mulatto women in the community, and mulatto men have a reputation for being ‘run-roun’ men’ and poor providers for dark women.at run-round man (n.) under runaround, n.
Shadow of the Plantation 81: ‘His mamma jest talked ’bout her [...] She tried to ‘scandalize’ her name’.at scandalize, v.
Shadow of the Plantation (con. late 19C) 22: She was too mean ter let you go to the well and git a drink of water, and God come long and ‘squshed’ her head open.at squish, v.
Shadow of the Plantation 172: ‘Listen, I’m gonna talk but I ain’t gonna say nothing out of school’.at talk out of school (v.) under talk, v.
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