patyrollers

Updated: May 18, 2025

The preacher would say 'Pull down de line and let de spirit be a witnes, workin' fer faith in de future frum on high. "I seed de patyrollers every week. If de niggers didn' get a pass in han' right frum one plan'ation to 'nother, dem patyrollers would git you. Dey would be six an' twelve in a drove, an' day would git you if you didn' have dat piece of paper. No sun could go down on a pass.

United States. Work Projects Administration - Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States: From Interviews with Former Slaves: Mississippi Narratives