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"You ought to look out, Harry and Kate," said Harvey Davis, "that all the darkies she knows don't come and settle down on her and live off her. She's a great old woman for having people around her, even now." "Well," said Kate, "she has a right to have company if she wants to, and can afford it."
Taylor writes, when it was rumored in 1719 that the General Assembly of that year had decreed that all baptized slaves should be set free; and when, immediately, and by a strange coincidence, the reverend gentleman was suddenly besieged by bands of men and women, all loudly clamoring to receive the rite of holy baptism, Duckinfield and others of the planters prudently restrained the poor darkies from entering the church's folds until that law could be repealed.
“Oh, all sort o’ ways,” he admitted, with a certain shy brazenness; determined to go through with the ordeal. “Dey ’low you wants to cut de little gals’ plaits off, an’ sich I don’ know me.” “Do you suppose, Nathan,” said Thérèse attempting but poorly to hide her amusement at Melicent’s look of dismay, “that Miss Hosmer would bother herself with darkies’ plaits?” “Dat’s w’at I tink m’sef.
A number of darkies were fishing for bullheads, and boys of three colors besides the Mexicans and a lone Chinaman clambered over the trees and the boats along the shore. It was a moment of suspense for Phillipps. His reputation as an engineer and a constructor of boats hung in the balance. He also had some original ideas about a rudder which had been incorporated in this boat.
If you think the darkies are loyal to their masters, what are you afraid of? According to your idea, if that darkey ahead betrays anybody, he ought to betray me, for I am Union and he heard me tell his master so yesterday. But if you think he can't be trusted to keep his mouth shut, we'll turn him to the right-about in short order." "And lose the benefit of his knowledge?" said Rodney.
"Taint no use give dem darkies not'ing; dey not know how to keep' um." But this was not Maria's real opinion, I knew. There was often a strange sort of seeming hard edge of feeling put forth, which I learned to know pointed a deep, deep, maybe only half- conscious irony, and was in reality a bitter comment upon facts.
The little darkies had been enlisted to bring their contributions of palm branches, pine cones, ferns, and bright hued bird wings and a row of those small recruits stood on the porch, gaping in wide-mouthed admiration at a sight that stirred within their breasts such remnant of savage instinct as past generations had left there in dormant survival.
I want you to call all the darkies up here this morning. Henry had a voice like a fog-horn. He started hollering. I wish I could holler the way he did, but I got to consider the neighbors. He hollered. 'Tention, 'tention, hey; Miss Lucy says she wants you all up to the big house this morning. She's got somepin to tell you. "They all come up to the yard before the house.
"Probably some of the house servants posted him," answered Tom. "You know that prying darkies sometimes find out a heap of things." "That's so," assented Mark. "Tom, you have told me great news Mrs. Gray with a gold mine hidden somewhere in her house, and Marcy taking his brother Jack out to the Yankee fleet to give him a chance to enlist under the old flag! What are we coming to?
Down in the alley she heard the voice of the day before singing: "Oh, darkies, how my heart grows weary, Far from the old folks at home." And she burst into tears. It was because the Democratic candidate for Governor was such an energetic man that he had been able to stir Little Africa, which was a Republican stronghold, from centre to circumference.
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