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  • Now, he's gwine ter know w'at it is ter eat co'n bread en merlasses once mo ', en wuk fum daylight ter da'k, en ter hab a oberseah dribin'

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • Mars Dugal 'sot spring guns en steel traps, en he en de oberseah sot up nights once't er twice't, tel one night Mars Dugal' -- he 'uz a monst'us keerless man -- got his leg shot full er cow-peas.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • I didn 'wanter open de do', fer w'ite folks is monst'us pertickler 'bout dey smoke-'ouses; en ef de oberseah had a-come up en cotch me in dere, he mou't not wanter b'lieve I wuz des lookin 'fer Dave.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • En de oberseah sent two er th'ee er de han's fer ter take Tenie back ter her marster's plantation.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • Howsomedever, one day Mars Walker -- he wuz de oberseah -- foun 'out Dave could read.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • De oberseah come up en axed w'at 'uz de matter; en w'en dey tole' im Henry be'n eatin 'er de scuppernon's, en got de goopher on' im, he gin Henry a big drink er w'iskey, en 'low dat de nex' rainy day he take 'im ober ter Aun' Peggy's, en see ef she wouldn 'take de goopher off'n him, seein' ez he didn 'know nuffin erbout it tel he done et de grapes.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • Now, he's gwine ter know w'at it is ter eat co'n bread en merlasses once mo ', en wuk fum daylight ter da'k, en ter hab a oberseah dribin' 'im fum one day's een' ter de udder.

    Hot-Foot Hannibal 1899

  • Howsomedever, one day Mars Walker -- he wuz de oberseah -- foun 'out Dave could read.

    Dave's Neckliss 1889

  • I didn 'wanter open de do', fer w'ite folks is monst'us pertickler 'bout dey smoke-'ouses; en ef de oberseah had a-come up en cotch me in dere, he mou't not wanter b'lieve I wuz des lookin 'fer Dave.

    Dave's Neckliss 1889

  • En de oberseah sent two er th'ee er de han's fer ter take Tenie back ter her marster's plantation.

    Po' Sandy 1888

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