Interesting, I will have to share that. The slave trade got started
here by bringing up Africans from Barbados (and I learned on a visit,
Antigua) as the planters who had set up there found promise in the
Lowcountry. It likely traveled from there.
--R
On 7/26/15 2:51 PM, M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes wrote:
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
I had supper with Sidi the other night and he shared another term used by
the Gullah folk. He said when he was little (he is probably 75ish) growing
up among the Gullah folk the kids would call him a "buckrah" or something
like that. Apparently this was the term used by the slaves for the
overseer/manager, who were generally Scots/Irish young men. The chirruns
had picked up this word from their older family members.
Don't recall the etymology off the top of my head, but "buckra" is roughly
the Caribbean equivalent of "Honkey"...
-MMM-
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