To: Responsibility2nd
the word "pickaninny" a derogatory term for black children Pickaninny is a term that was used for the half back/half white children on plantations. If they happened to be the plantation owner's children, they would most often become house servants.
21 posted on
02/20/2007 12:32:51 PM PST by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Dixie Yooper
If they happened to be the plantation owner's children, they would most often become house servants.
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Do you mean that if the father owned the mother they might become house slaves?
38 posted on
02/20/2007 12:39:39 PM PST by
wtc911
(You can't get there from here)
To: Dixie Yooper
"...a term that was used for the half back/half white children..."
Wha...???...Never in the old Southern literature I've read and not in Yankee Webster's dictionary either. I've never heard mulattoes referred to as pickaninnies. It was an endearing term for Black children.
62 posted on
02/20/2007 12:52:46 PM PST by
Monterrosa-24
( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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