Not many cullud people know de Bible in slavery time.
Not many cullud peoples know de Bible in slavery time.
De cullud folks stayed dere a while, but de owners of de place declaimed dey wuz free, and sont de people off.
A slave from the Starling Freeman plantation in South Carolina said, "When cullud people wus married, white people give a supper.
Jim Green (negro) said it was a "common thing to putcullud folks in de same cyar wid drunk and low white folks.
Den de wah broke out, an' w'en it wuz ober de cullud folks wuz scattered.
I staid wid some ob de cullud folks, and arter you gwoes up stars, I went to dar cabin, and dey gabe me some dry cloes.
De white folks sot at one table and de cullud folks have table to deyself, but 'bout what de white folks has.
Massa Thompson had a awful big plantation and more'n 300 cullud folks, and three rows of cabins 'bout two blocks long, and 'bout one family to a cabin.
But they didn't talk the war 'mongst us cullud folks.
Lots of cullud folks hafter pass by dere to git where dey gwine.
At de time freedom comes, somecullud folks stays on and works for money.
When de Klux come, de cullud org'ization made their scatterment.
I'se tend to all decullud chillen while dey mammies workin' in de fiel'.
Some of the cullud folks on our place could read and write.
I 'members though that dey was a blin' cullud man what uster preach.
Dey so much dif'ence as 'tween white folks and cullud folks.
Fore he die he calls all the cullud chillen to him and shakes hands and tells 'em to be good.
Course, lots of niggers seed dat cullud gen'man with dat pumpkin, and 'fore long massa knew it.
Master always wanted to help his cullud folks live right and my folks always said de best time of they lives was on de old plantation.
He have 'bout 30 quarters for de cullud folks back of him's house, and dere am a house for de nursery, wid a big yard dat have swings and sich for de cullud chillens.
It so bad de cullud folks 'fraid to sleep in dey house or have parties or nothin' after dark.
I'se married in a cullud church and I'se have a pretty pink dress and hat.
But I'se seen cullud men on de Bradley plantation git tur'ble beatin's.
Tell ebbry cullud pusson on de island to cum on Tuesday and carry lumber, and gib ebbry one what he can, -- one dollar apiece, or ten cents if got no more.
De white gemmins we knows whar to find when we wants dar money, but de cullud ones is berry slippery when de hat am passed round.
Bekaze it doan't hol' no encouragement out foh de cullud sinnah!
I's 'scended from a Rev'lution cullud genulmon what wus presunt at de fuss Foaf July dar ever wus.
Yoh finds it mighty easy, consterble, ter say disrespeckshus remahks on cullud folks," said the temporary barber, entering at that moment.
You orter go and git draafted inter that corpse, and go araound breakin' the wimmin's hyearts in a culludflannel petticut.
Schooling Aunt Katherine said she "learned her letters" in a school fuh cullud fokes only taught by Mr. Sam Allen just after the Srenduh close to the old Timberlake place.
How de cullud fokes did hate to be sold down south in de cotton country!
I ain't no cullud circle," Plaster mumbled, his mouth full of food.
We knows dat you has well earnt dis house an' lot dat Marse John Flournoy has gib you an' we cullud folks wants to make you a present of a few change so you kin buy some nice house-furnicher an' start out fresh an' new.
Us had de biggest weddin' in cullud circles, Plaster," she murmured.
Out in the kitchen is a "cullud pusson" of the female persuasion, whose black face glistens with happiness and a recent application of yellow soap, who sits chewing gum and sewing at a new turban with a look of contentment.
Out in the kitchen that small "cullud pusson," Fly, is making biscuits for supper, and diffusing around her a most delightful odor of good things.
Right after de baby killin', sojers with blue coats comes dere and camps front of Massa Buford's place and pertects de cullud folks.
I knowed Wright Cuney well and he held the biggest place a cullud man ever helt in Galveston.
Dat consider' a fine job on de plantation, 'cause he make all de shoes de white folks uses for everyday and all de cullud people shoes.
Now,' she say, 'All you cullud folks born and raise here and us allus been good to you.
Old Junus was de cullud overseer for de chillen and he sure mean to dem.
I only 'members after de war, and most de cullud folks stays with Massa Buford after surrender and works de land on shares.
The Gov'nor told the law to give 'em the old guns in the com'sary, what the Southern soldiers had used, so they issued the cullud men old muskets and said protect themselves.
I 'members my mammy lef' me in de nursery with all de other culludbabies when she go work in de field.
He uster preach to de white folks in de mornin' and de cullud folks in de afternoons.
There was a cullud man they taken, his name was Jim Freeman.
De riders gits so bad dey come most any time and run de cullud folks off for no cause, jus' to be orn'ry and plunder de home.
I's 'bout a mile off de place without de pass and it am de rule them days, all cullud folks must have de pass to show where dey 'longs and where dey gwine.
And dey is so uppity, too, callin' dereselves 'cullud folks and havin' gold teeth.
She run away 'case dey so mean to her, I reckon, and de cullud folks harbored her and hid her up in de grain house wid de peas and sech lac', stedder down in de corn crib.
People tell de news las' week Dat a cullud man gwine speak At de college hall; Say he try ter lif' his race Ter a high en shinin' place On dis 'restial ball.
En we don't pass culludfolks Wid our head up high, But we stop en speak wid dem 'Fo'e we pass on by.
Dey's a cullud man works in de hotel whar I stops, what comes from Mobile.
Uh whole lots uh cullud people berried in dah with de slaves of Ole Miss Nancy (Watkins) Webster on till de Mayo Mills got started and day built Mayhodan at de Mayo Falls.
But de fuss cullud chuch in Madison wuz a Union chuch over dyah by de Presbyterian graveyard whah now is de Gyartuh factry.
Any cullud pusson dat kin snore so po'ful as Mr. Buggone needn't say he weakly an' po'ly.
Dey's a long sight betteh fer cullud folks and white folks too, ef dey's a min' ter pull wid de curren' sted ob agin it.
Nex' I war hove to by Pete Maguff, a cullud man, who put a bar'l o' maple syrup aboard.
Jehosaphat Book, the cullud dominie, he run out an' tried to jump inter the waggin.
The tiny culludperson is removed from the pole and the deed's done and everybody's happy ever afterwards.
Coloured applicant for menial position would say to the door-opener: "Tell dat white 'oman in dar a cullud lady out here want to hire.
Marster 'pinted a culludboy to git de slaves up 'fore day, and dey wukked f'um sunup to sundown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cullud" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
