Some old negro man would play the banjo while the young darkies would dance and sing.
The darkies would hold gatherings of this kind at the homes of individuals or members, and engage in singing their favorite songs.
We ate dinner en supper at de church en sometimes the funeral foh some fo de darkies wouldn't git preached till next August.
These were on the order of concerts; and many darkies although they had no scientific training, became rather accomplished musicians in this respect.
Banjo and guitar playing were practiced by the many darkies of the slavery period also.
Also, the darkieswere very fond of sports, such as were common to the period, and many of them were very dexterous in the leading sports of the day.
The darkies were deeply religious and learned much of the Bible from devout mistresses who felt it their holy duty to teach these ignorant people the word of God.
Very often, as many as 30 darkiesof the most husky type were engaged in these battles, and the contests were generally attended by large audiences.
Illness among the darkies were cared from among themselves but under the watchful eye of the master and mistress.
The darkies had suppers in their own quarters and had much merrymaking and laughter.
Very different were these city darkies from the respectful negroes of the Kentucky plantations of the time.
There was a group of darkies at the door, and, suddenly, they all began to grin.
Softly she hummed the air the darkies had been singing when she came into the room.
You let these darkies waste more than they eat, and you keep four here to do the work of three.
Preston, 'he has constant practice; he writes the love letters of all the darkies in the district.
Pshaw, you drunken fool, do you s'pose dese darkies would tell on me?
But now she is far, far away, And we hear from her ebery day; And if she was here we’d have nothing to fear, For we darkies all lub her so gay.
Den commence you darkies all, As loud as you can bawl!
One of de darkies had a baby out in de field about eleven o'clock one morning.
De Ku Kluxers cum roun' sometimes but mostly to see dat darkies stay whar dey belong.
Dis old boss at first would not let the darkies have any church meetins.
I 'member one day when de master was gone, us darkies thought we would have a party.
Aftuh de buryin' was over, Young Joe an' Jane stood dar on de porch an' dey call de darkiesup one at a time.
Darkies didn't ever get to go to the big house where the planter lived.
Den have de darkies go up on de hill and sing corn songs.
Dey always carried whips and they'd crack dem to see how far de darkies could jump.
Old missus called us little darkies all up--and carried us down to de wagon General Lyon's body was in, when dey was bringin' him back here.
Boat load got as far as Cairo, Illinois, and lots of de darkies jumped overboard and was drowned.
Me and four more little darkies was one-half mile offen de big road when dey passed, and got scared and run back to old missus house and hid in de old barn loft all dat night.
We tracked thedarkies along the edge of the road; but her horse tracks--we could only see that no horse tracks left the road where any of their man tracks left it.
When demdarkies sing togedder, White folks frow some shinin' dimes Out de winder.
I was a girl about twelve or fourteen years old when the old darkies was set free.
White folks do as they pleases and the darkies do as they can.
Jenkins said, 'Doggone it, I want my darkies right back of my chair.
Say he was goin' to raise his littledarkies up back of his chair.
Sometimes the children would teach the darkies 'round the house their ABC's.
The darkies had all Sunday to themselves, and raised pandemonium in the principal streets of Spanish Town and Nassau, until the nuisance grew unendurable, and was put down.
In church the dusky beauties squat, beads in hand, upon the floor of the nave, which is reserved for their accommodation, while the gentlemen darkies stand round in the side aisles.
The darkies all had a firm belief in a resurrection, and were convinced they would return after death to their own country and begin their lives anew.
Another of your darkies in my place, this morning," said Mr. Grimshaw.
Scarcely seated, Master George rang the bell with such violence that he disjointed the cord and tassel, and gave such an alarm that three or four darkies came poking their alarmed countenances through the curtains at once.
It's some of the darkiesfrom Gooseville," said Mrs. Blair.
When we came out, the merry darkies were waiting for us, grinning and showing their shining teeth, laughing and shouting and calling the dogs.
Then all the young darkies about the place were free and ready for sport.
De darkies had to go dere in de night an' take him up in a sheet an' carry him home, but he didn't die.
Some of de darkiestole him, 'Rich been to de hoodoo doctor.
So you k'n be sho de darkies did n' hab much ter do wid dem scuppernon' vimes.
De darkies all made a great 'miration 'bout de mule gittin' drunk.
You is got dese yer darkies so well train' dat I 'spec' I kin run 'em myse'f fum dis time on.
En all de darkies t'ank de Lawd, en 'lowed it wuz a good riddance er bad rubbage.
The jib and foresail were hoisted before she got there, and when they began to draw and the schooner to feel their influence, the darkies were commanded to cast off the tow-line and make the best of their way to the plantation.
If the darkies hereabouts are as sharp as they are down Barrington way, they understand what this vessel is intended for as well as you do yourself.
You darkies are the cause of all this fuss, and you will have to be killed off or made free before we can be a united people again.
Ain't he the gink that got to be President of the United States, and made the darkies free?
So darkies wait a little while, Till he gets out ob sight, We’ll drop the shovel and the hoe, And have a little dance to-night.
In these companies there are always more officers than men, more epaulettes than muskets--always a big band of music, and two darkies to carry the target.
Well, I wush't you could o' heard them darkies holler an' laugh!
The darkies say they will blossom in about a month.
After dinner we got hold of the English-speaking darkies and explained our mission among them.
The hide, horns, head, legs and every other part of that ox that we didn't divide up among the companies was seized upon by the darkies and is as completely gone as if it had never existed.
Two days' rations have been given out, and the darkies are having a farewell dance.
Most darkies are afraid of a gun in a white man's hand, and these were no exceptions.
He had a pleasant way of speaking, and it was soon apparent that he embodied all the good qualities which the two darkies on Front street bridge had invested him with.
I was not absolutely sure the darkies had not deceived me, but then a man beating the roads has got to take all kinds of chances, and I was fast learning the fact.
Several darkies were in the place, and calling one of them outside, we headed for the pump.
Of course, their name isn't really Meiggs, like the plantation; but the darkiesoften take the names of the places where they were born.
Everybody, darkies and all, were on tiptoe about the coming festival of Christmas and New Year's.
Warning was given and neglected; when one evening, as the darkies sat at supper, a rifle bullet knocked the nail keg from under one of them, and next morning not a negro was to be found in the vicinity.
By this time the shot had aroused the folks, and dogs, darkies and men came running out.
Exploration establishes the fact that we are just below Vaucluse Landing, and that the land is rich in pecan trees, well laden with nuts, which these lazy darkies let go to waste.
Many darkies are here, and the worst looking set of levee loafers yet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darkies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
