Dese days, de boys and gals jus' walks off and don't say nothin' to nobody, not even to deymammies and daddies.
Dey stays out most all night sometimes, and deir mammies don't never know whar dey is half de time.
Dem slave sales was awful bad in some ways, 'cause sometimes dey sold mammies away from deir babies and famblies got scattered.
On all of his plantations dere was one old 'oman dat didn't have nothin' else to do but look atter and cook for de nigger chillun whilst dey mammies was at wuk in de fields.
In dem days, when chillun got big enough to eat, dey was kept at de big house, 'cause deir mammies had to wuk off in de fields and Old Miss wanted all de chillun whar she could see atter 'em.
Endurin' slavery Mistess tuk care of all the nigger babies borned on our plantations and looked atter they mammies too, but atter freedom come heap of nigger babies died out.
Dey sho' did take special good keer of de mammies and de babies.
Old Aunt Martha what nussed de chillun while deir Mammies wukked in de field was de quiltin' manager.
He was a old man what slept on a trundle bed in the kitchen, and all he done was to set by de fire all day wid a switch in his hand and tend de chillun whilst dere mammies was at wuk.
Us used to hear tell of big sales of slaves, when sometimes mammies would be sold away off from deir chilluns.
We sat with the other children, our mammies at our sides, in the narrow gallery with the tiny rail that ran around the ball-room, where the sweet odour of the green myrtleberry candles mixed with that of the powder and perfume of the dancers.
Yo' mammies oughter take an frail de las' one of yuh!
Der mammies would come in from de field about ten o'clock to nurse 'em and den later in de day, my mammy would feed de youngest on pot-licker and de older ones on greens and pot-licker.
Their mammies have gone to drink; but not all of them!
I would as lief wear a calico dress, and let the little foxes have their mammies to feed them; and I was willing to bet all my money that we would have as much ham, and as many greens next summer as we ever had.
Fly back to their holes like the Bible said they had, where maybe they LIKED to live, and no doubt they had little foxes there, that would starve when their mammies were caught alive, to save their skins.
It was the Mammies rather than the masters and mistresses, who ordered carriage drivers and horse boys imperiously about.
Since everything was packed in the baskets whole, there was much work for mothers and Mammies at the unpacking and table-setting.
Some de mammies what suckle de chillen takes care of all de chillen durin' de daytime and at night dey own mammies come in from de field and take dem.
They allus kep' the babies there and let de mammies come in and suckle and dry 'em up.
Dat what dey calls de place all de chillen stays till dere mammies come home from de field.
Marse Bob didn't put his little niggers in the fields till they's big 'nough to work, and the mammies was give time off from the fields to come back to the nursin' home to suck the babies.
Younguns always went with theirmammies so I belonged to the Joneses.
De missus, she raised de nigger babies so's de mammies could wuck.
Do you know, Arthur, the worst thing about this war is that there’ll never be any more old mammies after it is ended?
When Slaves were sick one of the mammies would look after dem and dey would call de doctor if she couldn't fix de sick.
When the old mammies would tell the tales of Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox to the master's children, these in turn would no doubt repeat the fairy tales which they had read in books or heard from their parents' lips.
Old missy have seven li'l nigger chillen what belong to her slaves, but dey mammiesand daddys come git 'em.
I'se tend to all de cullud chillen while dey mammies workin' in de fiel'.
Dey allus blow de horn for us mammies to come up and nuss de babies.
De mammies leaves de babies in de nursery durin' de day and dem chillen am take good care of and has lots of milk and am all fat like hawgs.
In the summer time they had camp meetin' and baptized in the creek, white folks first while the old nigger mammies shouts, and then the niggers.
I seed chillun too lil' to walk from deymammies sol' right off de block in Woodville.
Sometimes, they mammies take them to the field and fix pallet on ground for them to lay on.
There am 'bout 30 old and young niggers and 'bout 20 piccaninnies too little to work, and de nuss cares for dem while dey mammies works.
Den he takes de little niggers and says, 'De little fellows who I'se have sold dere mammies will stay wid me till dey am 21 years ole.
The reason they called it that was when the mammies was confined with babies havin' to suck, they had to spin.
Dey have a time sot for de mammies te come in and nuss de babies.
Dey have a big house to take care de chillen when dey mammies workin' in de fields, and old missus sho good to dose chillen.
Dey had a ol' woman to look after de babies when dey mammies was out in de fiel'.
One time when Annalinda's out for a walk with her two old black mammies Boggs crosses up with the outfit an' kisses Annalinda.
Emulate these old mammies and uncles, who know their places, and you will have no trouble.
At sundown they was 'sembled in a tent, and deir mammies would come and git them and take them home.
Ole lady Abbie had to see to it dat dey was kept warm by de fire and dat dey clothes was kept up wid while dey mammies was in de field.
Dem babies was washed every day if dey mammies was in de field, dat never made no diffuns, kaise it was de old ladies' jobs to see to it dat dey was.
Dey mammies was not worked on our plantation till de babies was big 'nough to take a bottle.
We travel on toward Chapin and meet ourmammies and many other people, some them white.
Presently she found herself, in the middle of the morning, seated on a bench in a little park, surrounded by colored mammies and children playing in the paths.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mammies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
