A buzz of disapprobation was heard all over the house, and there fell on the listening ear,'An abolition affair ! " " Woman's rights and niggers ! " " I told you so ! " " Go it, darkey ! " ..
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For her book " Stitched from the Soul ", she mailed 600 letters to museums in the early 1980s looking for " black folk survivals . " Her search identified almost 150 previously unknown slave-made quilts ( identified on museum accession cards of the time as " made by unknown darkey . ")
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"Lincoln " illuminates how far we've come from the days when the Mark Fuhrmans of the country fancied themselves " gentlemen, " when to have a " darkey trudging at your heels, " as one of Lincoln's contemporaries said, was the acme of status symbols.
34.
He entertained the veterans at the Hall with his great singing voice, singing such songs as " Old Black Joe ", " Roving Little Darkey ", " I se Gwine Back To Dixie ", and " That Feller What Looked Like Me " while his daughter Ada accompanied him on the organ, which is still on the small stage in Litchfield GAR Hall.
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Twenty-five years later, the lyrics were changed to eliminate the more racially specific lyrics, with " soldier " replacing " darkey "; and the first line of the chorus, " She's the sweetest rose of color " ( a reference to the African-European free people of color ) changed to " She's the sweetest little flower . . ."
36.
After retiring " Carry Me Back to Old Virginia " because of its anachronistic references to " darkeys " and " old massa, " and soliciting replacements _ which resulted in a year of heated controversy and name-calling _ the Legislature has decided to just put off until next January a new song . ( Hendrick, Atlanta Journal-Constitution ) . 14.
