Word: scuppernongs
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...South, double muscadine was a bedspread design, named for the leaf of the scuppernong-wine grape. "Rench" was the word for rinse, and "wropping" was the method of braiding pickaninny pigtails. In Mississippi at least, a perjured slave was subject to "have both your ears nailed to the pillory, and cut off, and receive thirty-nine lashes on your bare back, well laid on, at the common whipping post." Then as now, a cockleburr was regarded as a bad thing to get under a saddle...
...pages reveal (in the words of the jacket) how "Martha ... a mere slip of a girl. . . began to learn the things about her husband that so many Southern women in slavery days had to know and bear in silence." Mississippian Kirk McLean is not only "downright fond" of scuppernong wine, he is also the father of at least two quadroons. One day a disgruntled and sulking yellow girl flavors the family tea with a dash of king's yellow, or orpiment, an arsenious pigment. Somebody dies, and the girl is brought to trial...
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