Description
In the early Kansas days of 1857 and when Missouri was a slave state, two Yankees, just from the East, were riding leisurely along in Platte County, when they met a Missourian on horseback, who enquired if they had seen anything of a black “filley” in their travels.
Neither one had ever heard the term “filley” and one of them said, “Really, I don’t know what a ‘filley’ is.” His companion, who was from Connecticut would not acknowledge that a Missourian could know more than a Yankee, turned impatiently to his companion, saying:
‘You darned fool! Don’t you know what a ‘filley’ is? Why, it is a nigger wench!”Date(s) of Creation
1/26/1889
