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The Making of a Southerner choose

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[US] K. Lumpkin Making of a Southerner 155: If I knew their names I at once forgot them, contenting myself with ‘Sally’ or ‘Jim,’ or if they were old, perhaps ‘Uncle’ or ‘Auntie’.
at Aunt Sally, n.
[US] K. Lumpkin Making of a Southerner 155: If I knew their names I at once forgot them, contenting myself with ‘Sally’ or ‘Jim,’ or if they were old, perhaps ‘Uncle’ or ‘Auntie’.
at aunt, n.
[US] K. Lumpkin Making of a Southerner 133: Negroes rarely went, and in any case ‘their place’ was only a nook railed off far up in the ‘buzzard’s roost’.
at buzzard roost (n.) under buzzard, n.
[US] K. Lumpkin Making of a Southerner 190: The only time we ever said ‘Miss’ or ‘Mrs.’ or ‘Mr.’ was in telling a ‘darkey joke’.
at darkie, adj.
[US] K. Lumpkin Making of a Southerner 34: It was a large wooden building, its walls made of rough-hewn boards, [...] riven out by the slaves’ hands with a ‘fro’.
at froe, n.2
[US] K. Lumpkin Making of a Southerner 155: If I knew their names I at once forgot them, contenting myself with ‘Sally’ or ‘Jim,’ or if they were old, perhaps ‘Uncle’ or ‘Auntie’.
at Jim, n.1
[US] K. Lumpkin Making of a Southerner 86: Could not men recount a hundred tales with slight variations of Negroes ‘becoming very insolent,’ of ‘uppityness,’ ‘sassiness’.
at sassiness (n.) under sass, n.
[US] K. Lumpkin Making of a Southerner 155: If I knew their names I at once forgot them, contenting myself with ‘Sally’ or ‘Jim,’ or if they were old, perhaps ‘Uncle’ or ‘Auntie.’.
at uncle, n.
[US] K. Lumpkin Making of a Southerner 86: Could not men recount a hundred tales with slight variations of Negroes ‘becoming very insolent,’ of ‘uppityness,’ ‘sassiness.’.
at uppity, n.
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