What is "darkies"

Usage examples of "darkies".

The darkies hate you for being white and everyone else hates you for being black.

Perhaps this was why so many of our men feared and punished darkies, who were desperate for a living, too, and were wandering the roads throughout the South.

The silly thing was deathly scared of Papa, all the darkies are, though how they hear these things I do not know.

Mama always taught us that what people call stupidity or sullenness in darkies is usually no more than common fear, but all the same I was astonished by his rudeness, and terrified, too, that Papa might assault him on the street.

As he fell, the smaller darkies would pounce upon him, and in an instant despoil him of his blanket and perhaps the larger portion of his warm clothing.

Besides the whipping of the Galvanized by the darkies, I remember but two other bits of amusement we had while at Florence.

Her willing workers had the mythical faithful darkies of the Dixie that never was beat by a furlong at anticipating wishes.

They want to keep the darkies down here, you see, south of the Mason-Dixon line.

I remained on the south bank while the cattle were crossing, and when they were about half over some half-dozen of the darkies rode up and stopped apart, conversing among themselves.