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Definition of Niggers

1. nigger [v] - See also: nigger

Lexicographical Neighbors of Niggers

Literary usage of Niggers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"sire to attend the Lyceum, but was told, 'They don't allow niggers in here! ... I was soon touched upon the shoulder, and told, ' We don't allow niggers in ..."

2. The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"My opini.m did not pass for much at the time, as I owned no hig farm r.or any niggers, but 1 think it would pass for something now." "Well, how was it? ..."

3. Uncle Tom's Cabin in Ruins!: Triumphant Defence of Slavery! In a Series of by Nicholas Brimblecomb, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"Killing niggers not extremely common, though frequent. — Working niggers to Death not to be reckoned as killing them. — Fugitive niggers hunted and s/tot. ..."

4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"Berry sorry, 'im come to complain Ob dem niggers down dar, ... golly, when back dar 'im 'rives in gay trim, Dem niggers say, " Whom set 'im free ? ..."

5. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"Good land ! why, don't everybody see that them ar niggers are most starved ? Only see how ragged they are ! Justice. I can't say as I 've observed it ..."

6. The Attaché: Or Sam Slick in England by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856)
"Yes, they are far above our helps, I must say; but their misfortunate niggers here are a long chalk below our slaves to the south, ..."

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