Citations:niggership

English citations of niggership

Term of Address

• 1833, Peter Leonard, The Western Coast of Africa. Journal of an Officer under Captain Owen. Records of a Voyage in the Ship Dryad in 1830, 1831, and 1832.‎^[1], Philadelphia: Edward C. Mielke, →OCLC, page 37:

  After waiting in this room a few minutes, his majesty entered—without a flourish of trumpets! His royal niggership appeared verging on sixty, extremely stout, and suffering greatly from elephantiasis, each of his legs being the size of a moderate man's body.

• 1841 July 15, “Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw: or Life in the South-west”, in National Anti-Slavery Standard‎^[2], volume II, number 6, New-York, →OCLC, page 24, column 2:

  I'll take care you shall find him, and I'll take care, too, that you shan't get the lash for being about.—Come to me, d'ye see, at nine o'clock, and I'll give you a pair of ear rings. Stay away— that's all— just stay away, and you shall have Bill Johnson at your bed-side to-morrow morning, with a new cat of first-rate elegant cow-hide, and we’ll see how soon your dainty niggership will be fit to be about and praying again.”

• 1859 September 6, Louisville Daily Courier, volume 29, number 57, Louisville: W. N. Haldeman, →OCLC, page 1, column 4:

  John Hardin, a free negro who has been an inmate of the Louisville workhouse divers times, recently stole a horse in Shelby county. He was arrested at Simpsonville on Sunday, and two men were employed to keep watch over his niggership. In the night, however, the watch went to sleep, and the nigger didn't, but robbed one of them of $25 and his coat, and decamped forthwith.

• 1970, Vincent Harding, “Black Students and the "Impossible" Revolution”, in The Black Revolution: An Ebony Special Issue‎^[3], Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 182:

  Therefore, even if their immediate senses and experiences had not told them that something was seriously wrong with this education as it reached them, the logic of the situation would have demanded that they call in question an academic world they never made, a world often built on their exploitation, but a world which now seeks to shape their minds and goals. That is why a black student at Columbia University could say in 1967: “The subsequent classes of black students will not only reject the white man’s hang-ups, but will also reject the mediocre goals this institution says they ought to aspire to; they will absolutely refuse the white man’s benevolent offer of a 32nd vice niggership at General Motors.”

• 1998 June 6, FishLipper, “DEEP IMPACT - My 2 cents worth”, in misc.survivalism‎^[4] (Usenet):

  Have you seen his Niggership's excuse for a web page?
  Why are coons so quick to promote themselves to Lord and Queen and such?

State of Being

• 2018 [1865], Kristopher A. Teters, quoting a letter from Daniel Sheiler, Practical Liberators: Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War (Civil War America), Chapel Hill: UNC Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 102:

  The niggers all seem to be as black as they were before President Lincolns Amanicipation^[sic] Act, although they deny their niggership, and now call them selves white colored.

• 1973, Allan Sherman, “1964: Where Did We Go Wrong?”, in The Rape of the A*P*E*‎^[5], Chicago: Playboy Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 244:

  All kinds of people have taken turns as "niggers" since this country began. During their niggership they languish at the bottom of the totem pole trying to find a way to assimilate their way upward.