“Negroes in purple and fine linen, and slaves in rags and chains. . . .
Pimps, imps, shrimps, and all sorts of dirty fellows;
White men with black wives, et vice-versa too,
A progeny of all colorsan infernal motley crew!”

—from Have you ever been in New Orleans, a disparaging ballad of the late 1820s. Found in The American Nation, by John A. Garraty, 1975.