Top‧sy /ˈtɒpsi $ ˈtɑːp-/
a small African-American girl character in the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin(1851–52) by Harriet Beecher Stowe. When she is asked whether she knows who made her (that is, whether she has heard of God), she replies ‘I expect I grow’d’ (=grew).

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