3 Sentences With "offscourings"

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In 17th-century Virginia, critics of rebellious indentured servants denounced them as society's "offscourings," a term for fecal matter. from The New York Times
The expression "white trash" probably originated in the slang used by African American slaves, although its current widespread usage is due to its being picked up by upper- and middle- class whites as a way to denigrate poor whites who are different from "normal whites". Nancy Isenberg compiled the long list of derisive names that have been used to refer to poor whites: > Waste people. Offscourings. Lubbers. Bogtrotters. Rascals. Rubbish. > Squatters. Crackers. Clay-eaters. Tuckies. Mudsills. Scalawags. Briar > hoppers. Hillbillies. Low-downers.
Fourteen thousand Chinese arrived in British Guiana between 1853 and 1879 on 39 vessels bound from Hong Kong to fill the labor shortage on the sugar plantations engendered by the abolition of slavery. Smaller numbers arrived in Trinidad, Jamaica and Suriname. The Chinese achieved considerable success in the colony, a number of them having been Christians in China before the emigration. Some, particularly in the early years were "the offscourings of Canton--gaol-birds, loafers and vagabonds," who swiftly deserted the plantations and took to bootlegging, burglary and robbery and kept brothels and gambling houses.