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  • Better to debate actual policy than whether or not the Governor wants the word "pickaniny" in public school text books, I say.

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • But there, was also a dinner prepared at the house where the "white people" reside, expressly for the pickaniny-mothers only; that is, for the women who had children living.

    Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845

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