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Definition of Buckras
1. buckra [n] - See also: buckra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buckras
Literary usage of Buckras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eight Years in British Guiana: Being the Journal of a Residence in that by Barton Premium (1850)
""Certainly they are buckras; why do you ask?" "Case, me tink say, dem bucks (Indians);
such nasty, good-for- notting buckra, me neber sec; ..."
2. The Slave Colonies of Great Britain, Or, A Picture of Negro Slavery Drawn by by Zachary Macaulay (1826)
"Thought, by flourishing their cutlasses, and from what his father told him, they
were going to cut off buckras' heads. On such evidence as has been detailed ..."
3. The Adventures of Ebenezer Fox in the Revolutionary War by Ebenezer Fox (1847)
"... with Captain Cudjoe, in 1738, had made the Maroons amenable to the British
law in cases of murder, theft, &c., committed against the buckras, or whites. ..."
4. The Revolutionary Adventures of Ebenezer Fox by Ebenezer Fox (1838)
"The whole of the Accompong Maroons declared in favor of the whites, or refused
to fight the buckras. Fifty-eight years had elapsed since the pacification ..."
5. A Tour Through the Island of Jamaica: From the Western to the Eastern End in by Cynric R. Williams (1826)
"What do you think of those buckras on the other side the water? Would you like
to be free Britons, free-born Englishmen—to be kept aboard a ship for seven ..."
6. Antigua and the Antiguans: a Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants by Flannigan, Mrs Lanaghan (1844)
"... black buckras* (as these dashing black people are called in this country)
think the ceremony would be incomplete did they not shew forth some emotion, ..."
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