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"Whatever you does, don' let no buckra see you."

"The poor buckra in the Army, fight the rich white folks' war,"Cassius said.

"The buckra catch we, we hangs on de lamp posts, too.

And again: "Buckra" The West African word for white man.

"He one o'dat kind o' buckra, we is all dead soon."

"That buckra there, though, I bet he don't have nomama."

"Buckra" is a tough colloquialism for "white man."

"Never did hear a loa speak to buckra."

They rise up in the USA, lots o' they poor buckra get killed.

De buckra, yougive bad news to they, they get res'less."

The first, Becka's Buckra Baby, is said to mark the beginning of modern Caribbean writing.

Ah doan talk wid buckra."

"Buckra," he said.

Becka's Buckra Baby from the Digital Library of the Caribbean (1904)

Buckra is a slang offensive term primarily used by African-Americans in the Southeast United States to describe a white man or a boss.

Another source states that the word "bockorau" can be traced to the "Angolan" word "buckra', and was used to refer to white people, which is disputed.

A lot of the soldiers from the United States-this buckra lieutenant surely among them-had never set eyes on ablack man before they invaded the Confederacy.

Becka's Buckra Baby (1903), Times Printery, Jamaica.

"Dey's A Buckra Comin'" "

Using his Africa-based influence, Gullah Jack recruited for Vesey's plot African-born slaves as soldiers and provided them with charms as protection against the "buckra" (whites).

All my life I have worked magic, sitting first at the feet of mighty ju-ju men of the south and the east; then I was a slave to the Buckra and learned more.

By contrast buckra , also a derogatory term for a 'white person,' is first recorded in 1787 and is probably from an Efik word meaning 'he who governs' and 'white man.'

Hobson was a poor buckra who spent half his time drinking and the other half hungover, but he was white folks-and the white folks who didn'tdeserve respect raised the most hell if they didn't get it.