exclaiming, “Ah, my goody Heaven! if my dear Missee be not making the own good Massee’s plantation, and all of dis little bit of brush, and dis bit of paper!” Mrs.“…God Almighty provides for his own, and it be very, very hard, if poor Dido cannot find some little babies and their mammies to care after, and to doctor, and to feed with goodee things, from her goodee Missee, go where she will!” “Yes, that would be hard, indeed, Dido.” “Besides, Dido be greater there, Besides, Dido be great there, and housekeeper to her dear dearest lady, to Massa Fairfield’s daughter: although here she be “blacky,” and “wowsky,” and “squabby,” and “guashy,” and all because she has a skin not quite so white, -God Almighty help them all- me don’t mind that though, do we, my dear Missee?”.Caribbean English in The Woman of Colour (1808) by Anonymous
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