Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Niggers collectively.
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- noun The realm or sphere of
niggers .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I could rail against the sheer niggerdom on display, but ...
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Then it occurred to me how much finer a spectacle my ebony friend would make; how well his six feet of manly sinew would grace those pulpit stairs; how eloquently the reverend gentleman might expatiate on the burning sin of shrouding the light of such an intellect in the mists of niggerdom, only to see it snuffed out in darkness; how he might enlarge on what the black could do in elevating his race, either as "cullud" assistant to "Brother Pease" at the Five-Points, or as co-laborer with Fred Douglass at abolition conventions, or, if that didn't _pay_, how, put into the minstrel business, he might run the white "troupes" off the track, and yield a liberal revenue to the "Cause of Freedom."
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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It is inhabited in part by tribes of South African niggers, who have lost all the picturesqueness of niggerdom in working for the white man's wages.
An Old Man's Love Anthony Trollope 1848
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