Buckra

One of these is the word Buckra, from which comes Buckra Beach in Virginia.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 Various

It is very wrong, I know, to work on Sunday or go to market; but will not God call the Buckra men to answer for this on the great day of judgment -- since they will give the slaves no other day?

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor. To Which Is Added, the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African. Mary Prince 1831

This native trait has been sharpened to the utmost by the experience of slavery, which left him with the profound conviction that 'Buckra' [7] was fair plunder.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

_ etc. Another common gulla word is "Buckra" which means _a white man of the upper class_, in contradistinction to a poor white.

American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

All my life I have worked magic, sitting first at the feet of mighty ju-ju men of the south and the east; then I was a slave to the Buckra -- the white man -- and learned more.

The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

Buckra, but they would say po buckra and then they call the white folks big buckra.

Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, May 11, 1990. Interview A-0356. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1990

The poor fellow could not be very severely blamed for thinking thus, for certainly he had been fair plunder for Buckra from time immemorial.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Sesh Buckra said the debil couldn't take, but Deff 'll fin' you dar.

Harriet, the Moses of Her People

The ignorant and degraded slaves feared the "Yankee Buckra" more than they did their own masters, and after the proclamation of President Lincoln, giving freedom to the slaves, a person in whom these poor creatures could trust, was needed to assure them that these white Northern men were friends, and that they would be safe, trusting themselves in their hands.

Harriet, the Moses of Her People

De Yankee tell we to go en Buckra corn house and git w'at we want for eat.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration