I am tempted to imitate his example, lest the reader, otherwise, may not detect the rambling parallel I have herein drawn between a Northern and a Southern "poor white man.
Close to our Master's plantation lived several families of old "poor white trash" who would steal me Master's hogs and chickens and come and tell me Mistress dat dey seen some of de slaves knock one of dere hogs in de head.
All of us niggers called all the whites "poor white trash.
Many of the crews on such vessels were of the class called by the negroes "poor white trash," and they were ignorant beyond belief; to test which I once pointed out land to the east as being Ireland, to which they assented.
McWilliams--My watch gone to the mermaids--The ignorance of "poor white trash.
How had Jerry Rook, a poor white, become a proprietor?
A negro would not readily get into trouble with a gentleman of means and position when he would make short work of shooting a poor white.
They leased the farm of a "poor white," Mrs. Parrish.
Without it all would have been compelled to give up their holdings in order to seek their fortunes elsewhere, or sink to the condition of "poor white trash.
But he could see all around him the fate of those who had no slaves, as they became "poor white trash.
White women in them days looked down on overseers as poor white trash.
I can histronize de poor white folks' wives and chilluns enduring de time of de Civil War fer you.
All dis class of people was called by us niggers, poor white folks.
Every Yankee I see had de stamp of poor white trash on them.
Our overseer was 'poor white-trash', hired by the master.
We always got along fine with the children of the slave owners but none of the colored people would have anything to do with the 'poor white trash' who were too poor to own slaves and had to do their own work.
It is safe to say, that the peasantry of no country claiming to be civilized stands more in need of the labors of the schoolmaster and the preacher, than do the so-called "poor white trash" of the South.
He found a poor white man, however, Green by name, who seemed capable and energetic, and a gang of labourers under his charge was soon busily engaged in clearing the mill site and preparing for the foundations of a new dam.
There were plenty of poor white men, and no one had suggested slavery as an improvement of their condition.
Bill had been, to all intents and purposes, a poor white boy; who could not have named with certainty his own grandfather.
Sometimes the sons of "poor white trash" take part in it; but it is usually delivered over to the "darkey.
His mother inherited the shiftlessness and carelessness which is part and parcel of "poor white.
He, too, was born of a "poor white" family; first seeing the light in North Carolina about six weeks before Abraham Lincoln opened his eyes in that rude log cabin in Kentucky.
So there was something more than "poor white" in him, after all.
We may think the laws are unjust to the Negro, and incidentally to the 'poor white' man as well.
In the country from which I came, a white man holding no slaves was usually an ignorant and poverty-stricken man, and men of this class were contemptuously called "poor white trash.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor white" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
