THE WORD "TRASH"
Sir,-Besides "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" Mrs. Beecher Stowe wrote other books, and some of these deal also with the Negro life around her. We had several of her books, and.I recall. the word "trash" here and there: throughout, used much as we nowadays say "fellows" or "kids." The Negroes would call some of the white people "trash" and a magnificent black cook ruling her kitchen would chase away the giggling, jostling piccaninnies round the door, with some similar slang expression, only that in those days it was not called slang. Phraseology of this kind is no surprise to, anyone who has pored over those stories, now doubtless out of print.
DO-DAH
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 5
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114THE WORD "TRASH" New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 5
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