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They are free certainly but they are also degraded, rejected, the offscum and the offscouring of the very dregs of your society; they are free from the chain, the whip, the enforced task and unpaid toils of slavery; but they are not the less under a ban. "[

—The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917

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Refuse; scum. But now this off-scum of that cursed fry Dare to renew the like bald enterprize. Spenser, F. Q., VII. vi. 30. I see the Drift. These off-scums, all at once Too idlely pampered, plot Rebellions. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Lawe.
Vile; outcast. The offscum rascals of men. Trans. of Boccalini (1626), p. 207.

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They are free certainly but they are also degraded, rejected, the offscum and the offscouring of the very dregs of your society; they are free from the chain, the whip, the enforced task and unpaid toils of slavery; but they are not the less under a ban. "[ — The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
They are free certainly, but they are also degraded, rejected, the offscum and the offscouring of the very dregs of your society .... — American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime