leashmen

Updated: May 6, 2025

These dogs were very ferocious, and, on approaching the leashmen, who had them in charge, they opened in full yell, and attempted to break loose. The dogs had just arrived from Cuba with their keepers, their importation having been caused by the supposition, that, like the Maroons in Jamaica, who, for nearly thirty years, defied the colonists there, the Indians would be terrified into submission.

John Benwell - An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States