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Viola 13. Muse	~ ~ FEC
JackBOflViIIe, Florida


splitting, digging up trees by the roots and other hard work, Charles Coatee remembers vividly the cruelties

practiced on the Hall plantation. His duty was to see that all the slaves reported to work on time. The bel]. was rung at 5:30 a.rn. by one of the elaves.(Charles had the ringing of the bell for three years; this was in addition to the carriage dziving. He tells with laughter how the slaves would ~grab a piece o! meat and. bread and run to the field“ as no time was allowed to sit and eat breakfast. This was a very different way from that of the master he had before, as Mr. L‘Anglet was much better to his slaves.

	Mr. Hall ~aa different in many ways froni Mr. L‘Angle, “He was always pretending“ . says Charles that he did not want his slaves beaten un~eroifully. Charles being close to ~r, Hal]. during work hours had opportunity to see and hear much about what was going on at the plantation. Andhe believes that ~r, Hall knew just how the overseer dealt with the slaves.

On the Hall plantation there was a contraption, simiJar
to a gallows, where the Blaves were suspended and whipped. At the

to1: of thiB device were block8 of wood with chains run through ~ole~ and high enough that a slave when tied to t~e chains by his Iifl~e~s would barely touch the ground with his toes. This was done E~O that the slave could not shout or twist hie body while being ~thiPPed. The whippi~~wae prolinged until the body of the slave s Covered ~‘ith Wb~1PB and. bloodtrickled down hie naked body.