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English
Etymology
From nigger + -dom.
Noun
niggerdom (uncountable)
- (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. […] ”
- (offensive) The 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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