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1848. They say here [in Philadelphia] that they [servant galls] aint nothing but slewers—but I seed sum that I would tuck for respectable white galls if I had seed ’em in Georgia. Slewers or whatever they is, they is my own color, and a few dollars would make ’em as good as their mistresses, in the estimation of them that turns up ther noses at ’em now.—W. T. Thompson, ‘Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel,’ p. 107 (Phila.).
1848. [On the Hudson] you may call pore white men and wimmin waiters servants, slewers, or anything you please, but you must take monstrous good care how you speak to the free niggers.—Id., p. 147.
