1890, Things Pleasant and Otherwise, in Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volume 70:
"Well, sar, do you believe Gerliah, a pickaninny little shaver, slewed a great big man called David, dat was longer dan de Centre Market, wid a pebble dat was no bigger dan a huckleberry?"
1904, Robert Bruce, Benbonuna: A Bush Tale of the Fifties, page 307:
'Here pickaninny bit,' said Bowyer, tendering his sable ally half a plug of negro-head. 'Douglas give it you plenty to-morrow. And now you walk.'
