![I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.](/assets/img/quote-photos/im-with-an-old-family-was-the-euphemism-used-to-dignify-the-professions-of-whit.jpg)
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