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No one was allowed to read the Bible or anything else. "I have heard it said that the Randolph's lost more slaves by running away than anyone in the county. The patrollers were many in the county; they would whip any colored person caught off the place after night.
The Methodists were christened and the Baptists were baptised. I have seen many colored funerals with no service. A graveyard on the place, only a wooden post to show where you were buried. "None of the slaves ran away. I have seen and heard many patrollers, but they never whipped any of Mason's slaves.
De preacher read de bible and he told us what to do to be saved. I 'member he lined us up on Jordan's bank and we sung behind him. De partrollers watch de slaves who were out at night. If dey have a pass dey were alright. If not dey would get into it. De patrollers whip dem and carry dem home. On Saturday afternoon dey wash de clothes and stay around. On Sunday dey go to church.
One old man said to one of the ministers, as he placed his hand on his shoulder: "Bless God, my son, we don't have to keep watch at that door," pointing to it, "to tell us the patrollers are coming to take us to jail and fine us twenty-five dollars for prayin' and talkin' of the love of Jesus. O no, we's FREE! Yes, thank God for freedom!"
Of all the old people that came here in that time, my aunt is the oldest. You will find her out on Twenty-fourth Street and Pulaski. She has been my aunt ever since I can remember. She must be nearly a hundred or more. Patrollers "When we had the patrollers it was just like the white man would have another white man working for him.
Williams' favorite food was cornpone and fried liver. "Once before de wah, I was ridin Lazy, my donkey, a few miles from de boss' place at Fairview, when along came a dozen or more patrollers. Dey questioned me and decided I was a runaway slave and dey wuz gwine to give me a coat of tar and feathers when de boss rode up and ordered my release.
It was a smoky log house I had to stay in while they were out in the field and the smoke used to hurt my eyes awful. Ku Klux and Patrollers "I don't remember nothing about the Ku Klux. I heard old folks say they used to have passes to keep the pateroles from bothering them. I remember that they said the pateroles would whip them if they would catch them out without a pass.
He told dem dreaded white patrollers dat I was a freeman and a 'parson'." When the slaves were made free, some of the overseers tooted horns, calling the blacks from their toil in the fields. They were told they need no longer work for their masters unless they so desired.
We'd better go home, and not all go one way, cause de patrollers might git us all inter trouble, an' we must try to slip home by hook or crook." "An' when we meet again, Uncle Daniel can finish his story, an' be ready to go with us," said Robert. "I wish," said Tom Anderson, "he would go wid us, de wuss kind."
The "patrollers" were bands of white men usually young men who were organized largely for the purpose of regulating the conduct of the slaves at night in such matters as preventing the slaves from going from one plantation to another without passes, and for preventing them from holding any kind of meetings without permission and without the presence at these meetings of at least one white man.
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