pickaninny

• Raven. You're Mary Raven's ... boy Mary Raven's pickaninny, you mean? —  EQMM, June 2005
• While the pickaninny was opening it, another carriage went swiftly behind them, and the Major called out cleanly to the occupants--a quiet, sombre, dignified-looking man and two handsome boys and a little girl. —  The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
• A pickaninny--the queerest little mite--even ventured to poke a tiny finger into the ribs of one of the three. —  In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa
• You take that and go on Interviewer's Comment During the interview, a little "pickaninny" came in with his mother. —  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5
• They said, "we will support dem--as how dey brought us up when we was pickaninny, and now we come trong, must care for dem." —  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

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