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Updated: September 28, 2025
And the overseer closed the door, and departed, to carry the same information and warning to the other cabins. As soon as the sound of his footsteps had died away, Pomp whispered: "All right now, young massa. You can come out now no danger. The oberseer won't come to dis house g'in dis night."
"The ride will steady my nerves," she leaned forward whispering, her head inclined toward the front seat. "Perhaps he can tell us who we shall meet there?" "Pete," I asked, "who is out there now?" The negro turned, so I could see the whites of his eyes. "At de Henley plantation, sah? Why, I reckon de oberseer an' de housekeeper both white folks.
"De plantation where I slave not far off; Massa Bracher not at home better 'way perhaps, he not always in berry good temper, but de housekeeper, Mammy Coe, she take care ob de lady and de little boy. Yes, we will go dare dough de oberseer make me back feel de lash 'cos I go back without carry de message I was sent on. It can wait, no great ting."
But de new oberseer did not want me to be hung, for I was a strong slave and worth money, so he told a story about how it happen, and after dey had flogged me very hard dey sent me back to plantation. Dere I work for a long time wid a great log of wood chained to my ankle to prevent me from running away again.
When I wants wild ducks or wenson, all I got to do is to say to dat Yankee oberseer, 'Missus and I want some deer or some canvasback, I spect you had better go look for some, Massa Buccra. No, no, Massa, I ain't so ignorant as to let any man come over me to make seed-corn out of me.
A massa dat doan't keep no Yankee oberseer to foller you 'bout wid de big free-lashed whip; but dat leads you hisseff round to de green pastures and de still waters; and w'en you'm a-faint and a-tired, and can't go no furder, dat takes you up in his arms, and carries you in his bosom. What pore darky am dar dat wudn't hab sich a massa?
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