Farmers Slang & Its Analogues. 18901909, rev. 2022.
Milk-and-molasses
subs. (American).See quot.
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1833. NEAL, The Down-Easters, VII. p. 96. The people of this country are of two colors, black and white or half-and-half sometimes at the south, where they are called MILK-AND-MOLASSES.