These experience can be traced back as far as slavery days which still continued to affect the community.

The salutation, a relic of their grand- and great-grandparents' slavery days, persisted.

If we conceive of the context in which kidnapped Africans learned English during slavery days, clearly the new language would be tainted by the master/slave relationship.

This was down South, in the slavery days.

"You want me to tell you about slavery days?"

I was borned in slavery days, I don't never reckon I lives to see 1937.

They were telling the world that they were the offspring of the "field negro", not the trained "house negro" from slavery days.

I could notice this as a boy, down South in the slavery days before the war.

It has been around since slavery days and the cornerstone of the church is dated 1847.

But it provides no protection from 200 years of bad government, going back to slavery days.