niggerdom

Noun

niggerdom (uncountable)

1. (offensive) The collective, realm, sphere, or activity of niggers.
   • It proved to niggerdom what a good nigger could be if he only fear God and obey his master in all things.1855, Francis Colburn Adams, Our World: Or, The Slaveholder's Daughter, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119
   • We were assured therefore, by the learned doctors, that the Thebans were not Africans, but a nobler race, and had none of the particularities of niggerdom.2004 November 19, Scott Trafton, Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania (New Americanists), Duke University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 45
2. (offensive) The state of being a nigger.
   • That is the other side of the shield; is the price the hired nigger pays for his occasional freedom from his niggerdom, It is not in the least material however that we should settle which of the two slaveries is best or worst.1886, Plain Diogenes Hunt (Pseud.), Property; a Bottom Enquiry Into Its Management in England and in Other Such 'Christian' Countries..., page 269
   • Suddenly feeling his “niggerdom” in a white environment, he determined to live in a black society.1996 February 1, Jules Archer, They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglass...MalcolmX, Penguin, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   niggerhood, niggerness