It was just a few years back that the nega man get to take on the responsibility of father, so back then nega picknee carry the name of the estate owner. The practice live on a long time after slavery ended. People seriously had the feeling that the child belong to the bakkra and the mother usually take the child to the massa. In most cases, it would be massa that name the baby. The man that was the rightful father couldn’t have nothing to do with the child. Many times he would not even know that a particular woman was making child for him.
Samuel Smith | from To Shoot Hard Labour: The Life and Times of Samuel Smith, an Antiguan workingman, 1877 - 1982
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