Meaning of buckra | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A white person.
   Caribbean, derogatory
2. A poor white person.
   archaic, dated, derogatory

Examples

“As he was going to the stake, he turned about, and addressed himself to Mr. Jeffreys […] and said, “Buckra, you see⟳ me now, but to-morrow I shall be like⟳ that,” kicking up the dust with his foot.”

“To show⟳ the deadly hatred they bore the white people, Thicknesse, who was the first in the town, and the person left with them as a hostage, related, that having taken up his abode with Quao, his children could not refrain striking their pointed fingers at his breast as they would have⟳ done knives, had they been permitted, calling out, “Buckra, Buckra.””

“Oh the Buckra people who keep⟳ slaves think⟳ that black people are like⟳ cattle, without natural affection. But my heart tells me it is far otherwise.”

“They kick⟳ me in the face⟳, beat⟳ me with the baton, whip me in me balls, beat⟳ me with a cat o’ nine like⟳ them name⟳ buckra massa […]”

““Dunno whether he been a buckra or not,” responded, doggedly, my Cerberus in uniform; “but I’s bound to keep⟳ him here till de corporal ob de guard come⟳.””

“1941, Ed Barber, interview published in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, Volume 14: South Carolina Narratives, Part 1, What I think⟳ of Abe Lincoln? I think⟳ he was a poor buckra white man, to de likes of me.”

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