On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:38:16 -0400, "Tim J."
wrote:


wrote...
"D. Fry" wrote:

only 25 percent of the people owned slaves.

The other 75% preferred unguents

Scott

The other 75% were "po"whitetrash as they couldn't even afford food and
clothes and had to work there young Children to get by. Whitetrash couldn't
have been crackers period.

I love these uproars.....lmao.

Deep

What it APPEARS Mr. Throat...or may I call you Deep...is attempting to
imply is that "crackers" aren't "po" as the term "cracker," he is
mistakenly implying, refers to those who owned "salves" and cracked
whips at or over them. Unfortunately for Mr. Lovelace, "cracker"
referred to those who actually did the whip-cracking: overseer-types.
It had nothing to do with slave ownership, and therefore, "'po'
whitetrash" could have been "crackers," and, in fact, such is probably
the case...

Historically yours,
R

I always thought the term "cracker" came from the practice of cracking corn to
make liquor.

AFAIK, the precise origin and connection isn't known, and, probably,
several usages were used simultaneously. There's also the theories that
it comes from the earlier English term for braggart, and that it
actually comes from, well, crackers (the eating kind, like what Linda
uses for his hors d'oeuvres). But given what APPEARED Deepstick was
pecking out about "salves," he was relying on the "whip-cracker" theory
of origin.

TC,
R