"Coffee" as the name of a female slave

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/12/2009 03:37 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>If "Coffee" and its variants are rare in my experience, it's merely a
>coincidence. I've never met a white person by this name, either.

I have -- but the family was Denver Jewish.  (Sorry, I can't tell you
more; I was but a child, and met them only passing through to someplace else.)

Joel

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