1947 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.
1947 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.
1947 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.
1947 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.
1947 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
1947 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
1947 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.
1947 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.
1947 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.