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@nhannahjones @TrevonDLogan If you haven't seen it, this brilliant article by @pryorhistories shows just how long. It was a labor category used subversively by antebellum Black laborers in the early 1800s even before it was appropriated by white speakers as a racist slur. muse.jhu.edu/article/620987