[Ads-l] Antedating of "Peckerwood" (Derogatory Term for White Person)

[Amy West]

On 7/16/26 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:35:38 +0000
> From:    Bill Mullins<amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Antedating of "Peckerwood" (Derogatory Term for White Person)
>
>>    1901 Plaindealer (Topeka) 8 Mar. 2 (GenealogyBank)
>>
>>    The peckerwood, resubmission candidate and cigarette fiend on the so-called Law and Order Ticket, which
>>    ought to be called the Lying, Disorder and Hypocrisy Ticket, seems to think that Chiles and Townsend ought
>>    to leave town until he is elected. ... The colored people will not support men who denounce their race at every opportunity.
> Fred - do you not see "peckerwood" as an adjective modifying "candidate", rather than a noun?

I'm not Fred, but I read it as a list of 3 items: 1) peckerwood, 2) 
resubmission candidate, 3) cigarette fiend.

---Amy West

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