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- noun Plural form of
mammy .
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Examples
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Thus, with major exceptions for black "mammies" suckling white babies and female house slaves placing their coarse black skin on the food they prepared for white households, whites decided when the touching of white skin to black skin was permissible.
The South Continues to "Make" Race: Will the Supreme Court Follow? 2006
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In the American segregated South nannies (called "mammies" or, more commonly, "maids") were passed among the members of an extended family with a casualness surely born of slaveholding traditions.
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In the American segregated South nannies (called "mammies" or, more commonly, "maids") were passed among the members of an extended family with a casualness surely born of slaveholding traditions.
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In the very last pew, on the aisle, sat an eager old colored woman -- one of those typical "mammies" now so seldom seen -- in an old-fashioned bonnet and shawl.
Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands Alice B. Emerson
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Our grandchildren, indeed our children, will never know the kind of mammies their ancestors were blessed with.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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The old colored "mammies" were very fond of "Massa's chillun" and liked to pet them and tell them stories.
Stories of Later American History Wilbur Fisk Gordy 1891
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The 'mammies' at once grouped themselves upon the main-hatch, as near the quarter-deck and officers 'cabins as possible.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Meanwhile those marvellous beings the 'mammies' call 'the city' 'Sillyown,' and the pretty, naughty mulatto lady married to the Missing Link termed it 'Sa Leone.'
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Southern slaveholders often pointed to their affection for their individual "mammies" and the supposedly deep ties they formed with their enslaved playmates (of the same sex, of course) on the plantation.
AmericanHeritage.com 2009
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A skinny ass identified you with the elegant and never too rich, never too thin social elite, big butts with the mammies and maids. posted by Andrew Simone in aesthetics, beauty, gender, sexuality, sociology | * | 4 comments comments
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