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• n  (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child

• These buoyant cards show a little white Italian boy in Fascist uniform kissing and being kissed by an Ethiopian pickaninny.
• Pistol In Miami's Negro section, Theatre Usher Jack Woodberry was hauled into court for shooting at a pickaninny.
• His parents were slaves, owned by Moses Carver, who gave the pickaninny his own surname and christened him George Washington.

• piccaninny
• picaninny

News & Articles

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• A Journey through history - Boston.com
  History’s “ugly truths” are here inside an unlocked cabinet just insidethe entrance to the new Black Doll Museum in Mansfield. Visitors can reach into the cabinet and touch figures of mammies; dolls made by slaves from bells, thimbles, and animal wishbones; or a dark -faced pickaninny doll. Then there are the golliwogs -- minstrel-type rag dolls popularized in the 19th century ...
  June 25, 2013 - Boston Globe