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Updated: June 24, 2025
She got so before she died that she could hardly see to go nowhere. I don't know what it was they done to her that made her eyesight bad, but she insisted that it was due to bad treatment in slavery time. Patrollers "I have heard that the pateroles used to run the slaves if they didn't have a pass from their mistress and master. The pateroles would run them and catch them and whip them.
Now everything you git, you have to buy. "Next morning, they all et their breakfast in the same kitchen. They et three meals a day every day. My mother never cooked except on Sunday. She didn't need to. Patrollers "Me and old lady Eford would be out in the yard and I would hear her cuss the pateroles because they didn't want folks to 'buse their niggers.
They didn't do nothin' but just keep the slaves down. It was before the war that I knew 'bout the Ku Klux. There wasn't no difference between the pateroles and the Ku Klux that I knows of. If they'd ketch you, they all would whip you. I don't know nothin' about the Ku Klux Klan after the war. I know they broke them up. Slave Houses, Furniture, Food, and Work
Brantley was one of the killed ones. The pateroles was awful bad at that time. Ku Klux they called them after the War, but they was the same people. I never heard of the Klan part till this thing come up that they have now. They called them Ku Klux back when I was a boy. My stepmother carried me over to Brantley's house the night he got killed. So I know the Texas he went to.
They had to git a pass from their masters when they would be out. If they didn't have a pass, the pateroles would whip them. Jayhawkers "The jayhawkers would catch folks and carry them out in the woods and hang them up. They'd catch you and beat you to death. Runaways
I don't reckon pa would ever have run off if ol' miss hadn't whipped me and if ol' massa hadn't struck him. They rats good till then; but it looked like the war made them mean. Patrollers, Jayhawkers, Ku Klux, and Ku Klux Klan "They had pateroles going 'round watching the colored people to keep them from running off. That's all I know 'bout them.
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