snuff-dipping

“Potbellied, snuff-dipping, beer-drinking, redneck, bigoted — that’s how everybody had us figured,” said Sheriff Rowles, the loaded, colorful description rolling off his tongue because he has said it so often.

But Washington Phillips—a stocky, snuff-dipping gospel singer from East Texas, who recorded eighteen songs for Columbia Records between 1927 and 1929—is an uncommonly captivating cipher.

Akin to this is the practice of snuff-dipping, which is not confined exclusively to females of the poor white caste, though scarcely one in fifty of this class is exempt from the disgusting habit.

Oriental betel-chewing, and the Japanese fashion of blacking the teeth of married ladies, are the height of elegance compared with snuff-dipping.

Aunt Dicy tales; snuff-dipping tales of the Texas Negro.