I don't know much else.
The black tenant worker family on a white's farm was also classified as a "nigra" or "n word" depending on the perception of their behaviour.
A hard working tenant farmer was a good "nigra" - a layabout black tenant farmer was useless to the farm and were called "n words" for their lack of a strong work ethic; the strong work ethic black was a "nigra" and was considered as family and friends, from my experience on the farm.
My white grandfather farmer loved chitlins (Chitterlings!). My grandmother never cooked them because of the smell.
One Christmas, one of the "nigras" made chitlins for my grandfather because she knew he loved them. She braided them and put red and green peppers through out to celebrate Christmas!
My grandfather counted that as one of the best Christmas gifts ever!
I miss the farm living - how about you, rarestia? Good times for me!
I loved it. We didn’t have much, but what we did have we either farmed for ourselves or made. I still have a cup I made out of a fallen oak. We took our hatchets with us to gather wood, and I wound up taking a chunk of this giant oak home with me. I whittled it down into a smooth cylinder and took to hollowing it out on the back patio while my cousins plucked chickens for dinner. After about a week, it looked like a cup, and I used it all the time. Now it’s a very nice, decorative pencil holder in my office.
And as far as the neighbor negroes, we used to play with the kids quite a bit, but they had over 150 acres to tend; so they honestly didn’t get away as much as we did.
Besides, negro is Spanish for black. I never understood the disparaging aspect of the word.