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   From: wickeddoll1958noeffingspam@yahoo.com   
      
   On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:10:06 -0500, Professor Bubba   
   > Wickeddoll wrote:   
   >   
   >> Oh yeah - that's the one with Lincoln calling Uhura a "negress" (a   
   >> livestock term)   
   >   
   >Huh?  I thought it was the female form of "negro."  Obsolete, surely   
   >... but let me look it up.   
   >   
   >[Later] I can't find anything that equates "negress" to livestock,   
   >although "negress" is generally noted as being offensive or "sometimes   
   >offensive."   
   >   
   >Can you please explain the livestock thing?  Thanks.   
      
   It was used in advertising for slaves, since they often were not   
   named.  It's like saying "sow" "bitch" "mare" or "doe" etc.   
   Dehumanizing.  Women of other races are simply called women, but since   
   slaves were livestock, they were sorted like any other farm creatures.   
      
   At least that's what my elders told me, and since my 94 y/o Grandma's   
   dad was born only slightly after the Proclamation, making her   
   grandparents slaves, I tend to believe her, no matter what the books   
   say. LOL   
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