anthropology: the study of humans

Bahaman: a person from the Bahamas

baiting: teasing, torturing

burros: donkeys

cane: the raw material of sugar

color-struck: obssessed with race

desecrate: to make less sacred, to make profane

dialect: common language, spelled phonetically

disposition: temperament

ostentatious: in a style meant to show off

portly: plump

pullet: chicken

root doctor: quack folk doctor

sedan: type of car

Seminole: native American tribe centered in the Everglades

spittoon: a small dish in which to spit tobacco

sullen: pouty

supplication: pleading

switch: whip

the Muck: an area of the Everglades, Florida

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