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Cose dey had dey little crop of corn en 'tatoe en thing like dat bout dey house, what dey would work at night, but dat won' nothin to speak bout.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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You see, I does keep some 'tatoes roastin dere in de coals on de hearth en if us belly sets up a growlin twixt meals, us just rakes a' tatoe out de ashes en breaks it open en makes out on dat.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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Give us rice en corn bread en fresh meat en coffee en sweet tatoe pone.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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Den de o'erseer ketch him one time when he been come back en wuz grabblin ''bout de tatoe patch.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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Den some uv de day dey'ud go in de tatoe patch en dig tatoe en roast em in de coals.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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My Lord, dat sweet tatoe pone was de thing in dem days.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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'I would not stay anywhere without you; and when I live at the park you will live there, too, and have codfish and tatoe every day.'
Tracy Park Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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I gone in, ugh! de place pirty, for true -- I'h! de corn -- de tatoe -- ebery ting growin dey.
The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; A Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion. 1845
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-- Healthy man thrives on a 'tatoe, sickly looks pale on a haunch.
Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Another of the tribe was bawling out, with a loud, hungry tone -- "A tatoe, pa!"
Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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