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RI~& BODY~ EX~SIAVE.



Place ot birth:	Harris County, near Waverly Hall, Geor~1e

Date of birth:	April 9, 1846

Present residence:	1419 - 24th Street, CoIu~nthus, Georgia

Interviewed:	July 24, 1936


Rias Body was born the slave property of Mr. Ben. Body, a Harris County planter. He states that he was about fifteen years old when the Civil War started aud, many years ago, his old tim~e white folks told him that April 9, 1846, was the date of his birth.

The “pataroler p „ ac e ordin~g to “Unc le“ Rias ‚ wer e a1~ys qui te active in ante-befluni days. The regular patrol consisted of six nien~wh.o rode nightly, different plan~ters and overseers taking turns about to do patrol duty in each militia district in the Coun~ty.

.Al1 slaves were required to procure passes fron their owners or their plar&~tation overseers before they could go visiting or leave their home preinises.~ If the “pataro1ers~ caught a “Nigger“ without a pass ‚ they whipped him and sent him hone. Sometimes, however, if the “Nigger“ didn‘t run and told a straight story, he was let off with a lecture end a warning. Slavechildren, though early taught to n~ke themselves u~se~ fui, had lots of time for playing and frolicking with the white