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Old 03-01-2010, 08:08 AM   #45
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I thought 'uppity' was a euphemism for some sort of assualt that couldn't be specified in polite society. Freed slaves were quite often described as behaving insolently towards women, without being murdered for it.

Melanie's second pregnancy is a bit of a puzzle to me; I struggle to believe Ashley would have got her pregnant, or that Melanie would have risked leaving Beau motherless.
I'm from the South and in my childhood segregation by law of schools, restaurants, water fountains, bathrooms, et cetera was the rule. In those days, whenever someone spoke of an "uppity negro", it invariably referred to a insolent black person who "didn't know their place." I've never known it to be used as a euphemism for anything worse. That isn't to say that there couldn't have been different connotations for the word in the late 1800s.
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