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t few q1e.tions, the answers to which a a as shall follow o disclose their nature.
“The loweit down Whites of slavery days were the averate overseers. A few ~uere gentlemen, one must admit, but the regular run of them were trash o

commoner than the boor wtite trash‘ ~ a and, if possible, th:‘ir children were worse than their dade dies. The name, ‘overseer‘, was a synonym fQr ‘slave drirer‘ ‚ ‘cruelty‘ ‚ ‘brutishness‘.

No, sir, a Nigger may be humile and ref~se to talk ou,t8ide of his race a a because he‘s afraid to, ut you. can‘t fool him about a white man! And you couldn‘t fool him when he was a slave!

He knows a white man for what he is, and he knew
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him the same way in slavery tImes.

C&Lcernine the puniahme~nt of slaves, the Reverend said:

ni never heard or knew of e slave being tried in court for any thing. I never knew of a slave leing guilty of any crime more serious than takinc somea thing or violating plantation rules. snd the only punishrn‘nt that I ever heerd or knew of oeing admina istereö slaves uns whippint. ..

I have personally uiown a fe~ slaves that rere leaten to death for one or no e of the followint offenses:

Leavi.ti~ home v;ithou; a pass, Talkint ~ack to a a ‘sassing‘ a a a white person, Hi;tiria another Negro, Fussinc, fighting, and rukkussint in the quarters,