]:~ying, Loiterin& on their work, .

~akin~ things — the Whites called it stealing. Plantation rules ~oriade a slave to:

Own a firearm, Leave home ~vithou.t a pass, Sell ~ ~1u~y anything without his masterTs c.onsent, Marry withou.t his ol;/nerTs consent, . Have a lieht in his c&.in after a certain hour at ni~ht, Attend any secret meeting, Harbor or~~ any manner as sis t a runaway slave ‚ A1s~ise a farm animal, Mistreat a meinier o~ his family, and do
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A great many other things.

~Then asked if he had ever heard slaves plot an insurrection, the Parson snswered. in the ne~ati~e.

P~:en ‘2sked if he had personal knov~led~e of an instance of a slave of~‘erin~ resistance to corporal pu.nishrnent, the Reverend shook his

	said: ~

	“~Sometimes a stripped Ni~er would say some hard ‚ thin~s to the white man with the straD in his

hand, thou~h he knew that he (the Ne&ro) would pay ~or it dearly, ±~or when ç~ sl~ave showed spirit that way the master or overseer IRid the lash on all the herder.“

‘::e~~ asked hOW the women took their whippings, he said:

“Th~ey u~stïa11y serearned and. prayed, though a

few never made a sowad.“
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