Lexicographical Neighbors of Darkeys
Literary usage of Darkeys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date. 1861-1903 by Bill Arp (1903)
"THE OLD-TIME darkeys. A merchant or a lawyer or any outsider who never farmed
any has got an idea that farming is a mighty simple, and easy, and innocent ..."
2. A Woman Rice Planter by Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (1918)
"It is a day of general jubilation among the darkeys — gorgeous costumes, little
tables set about with ice cream, lemonade, cakes; every kind of thing 'A ..."
3. The History of the Thirty-Ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Veteran Infantry by Charles M. Clark (1889)
"... a Rebel—Seeking to Arrest Colonel Boswell —Visit from Plantation darkeys—A
Reconnoissance—March to Fredericksburg—Eastern Soldiers—Reviewed by President ..."
4. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"Down in de corn-field Hear dat mournful sound: All de darkeys am ... Massa make
de darkeys love him, Mourning cayse he leave déni behind. ..."
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