niggerdom

English

Etymology

From nigger +‎ -dom.

Noun

niggerdom (uncountable)

  1. (offensive) The collective, realm, sphere, or activity of niggers.
    • 1855, Francis Colburn Adams, Our World: Or, The Slaveholder's Daughter‎, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:
      It proved to niggerdom what a good nigger could be if he only fear God and obey his master in all things.
    • 2004 November 19, Scott Trafton, Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania (New Americanists)‎, Duke University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 45:
      We were assured therefore, by the learned doctors, that the Thebans were not Africans, but a nobler race, and had none of the particularities of niggerdom.
    • 2013 April 26, Randall D. Law, Terrorism: A History (Themes in History)‎, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC:
      In the words of the Tuscaloosa (Alabama) Independent Monitor, “The cutting [that is, castration]” of a local black “in [the] presence of crowds of his fellow niggers, has had a salutary influence over the whole of niggerdom hereabout. […] ”
  2. (offensive) state of being a nigger
    Synonyms: niggerhood, niggerness
    • 1886, Plain Diogenes Hunt (Pseud.), Property; a Bottom Enquiry Into Its Management in England and in Other Such 'Christian' Countries ..., page 269:
      That is the other side of the shield ; is the price the hired nigger pays for his occasional freedom from his niggerdom , It is not in the least material however that we should settle which of the two slaveries is best or worst .
    • 1996 February 1, Jules Archer, They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglass...MalcolmX, Penguin, →ISBN:
      Suddenly feeling his “niggerdom” in a white environment, he determined to live in a black society.

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