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Po' Buckra.
Gertrude Mathews Shelby and Samuel Gaillard Stoney.
New York: Macmillian Co., 1930
The Unemployed Magazine Cover image
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To save her unproductive plantation, a penniless woman marries a muscular "po' buckra" or poor white, who, unknown to her is really a "brass ankle" i.e. with strains of Negro and Indian blood. When the marriage fails and the plantation house becomes a rendezvous for bootleggers, she burns the mansion down in desperation.


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