Just read that the word "cracker" as a pejorative word for white people comes from the experience of slave owners cracking whips. Can someone in NC comment on this?
Wikipedia says:
Etymology
One theory is that slaver foremen in the antebellum South used bullwhips
to discipline African slaves, with such use of the whip being described
as 'cracking the whip'. The white foremen who cracked these whips were
thus known as 'crackers'.
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