half-nigger

Updated: May 26, 2025

They had a good fat new educator, half-nigger, half-white, this time educated a heap more'n I am. He was the king bee in that lot of evangelizers and elevators. Well, I took them out over my farms and showed them the sassafras shoots coming up where the cotton ought to be. 'Gentlemen, said I, 'here's an instance of what an intelligent and industrious race can do.

Emerson Hough - The Law of the Land

I'm a Southern woman myself from Missouri, but I'm for the Union first, last, and all the time, and I call myself a match for any lazy, dawdling, lash-swinging slaveholder and slaveholderess whether they're mixed blood, Heaven only knows, or what or their friends or relations, or the dirty half-Spanish grandees and their mixed half-nigger peons who truckle to them. You bet!"

Bret Harte - Clarence