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But “buckra,” a derogatory word for white men, becomes the more straightforward “blanco” and “die Weissen.”

No sooner had he and I settled beside one another, than Bono was asked with surprise, “You friend of Buckra, before you come to Lord Dunmore?”

Bono saw that by “Buckra,” I was meant; and replied, “Oh, I known Buckra since we all had to wipe his behind and weigh the leavings.”

He wished me luck, calling me Buckra, and I wished him luck, calling him Slant; and then we fell silent, and awaited our turn, biding our time in that endless queue that convolved there in the night stockade.

And the men now call me Buckra, which is their word for a white man; for having seen me read, they say that I am a white man hidden in a black skin.