piccaninnies

Mothers sat holding their "piccaninnies" in their sable embrace, murmuring expressions of endearment, or endeavouring to hush them to rest.

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

Several of these last you may see rolling about in the dust among the "piccaninnies," and apparently as happy as they.

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

With the women were stowed all the younger slaves, both girls and boys, and there were many children, poor little "piccaninnies," jet-black, and naked as when born.

Ran Away to Sea Mayne Reid 1850

Prior to becoming mayor, Johnson provoked his own share of racial controversy when he referred to children as "piccaninnies" and described the "watermelon smiles of black people".

Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

Boris Johnson apologised for calling black people "piccaninnies" and referring to their

Evening Standard - Home 2009

Dons' diaries refer to the "woolly-haired undergraduate with a black wife and piccaninnies".

Alexander Crummell, Cambridge's first black graduate 2011

J.B. glowered like a spoilt child, for Kagi backed me up, and our discussion was pretty strained until he got his way on another ridiculous point - the establishment of a school in the hills for piccaninnies.

THE NUMBERS 2010

When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies.

Race 2009

This being in reference to Boris Johnson's Very Off Message plan VOM to Cameroonies? to let all illegal immigrants - watermelon smiles and piccaninnies or no - earn the right to join the nation officially.

Iain Dale: Like A Dog Walking On Hind Legs, Admits Ignorance 2008

The thought of Boris Johnson, the faux-bumbling Tory toff, who once famously referred to black children as piccaninnies in an article, becoming Mayor, fills me with dread.

Racially profiled in the West End and other stories uknaija 2008