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Updated: May 14, 2025
I asked the cap'n of the gang whut it meant, an' he 'lowed that the feller had been in the habit o' whippin' his wife, an' then I 'lows, I does 'Old chap, I reckon you'll hatter swallow yo' salts. Good night. An' I hearn him a swollerin' 'em. But if I hear you holler, Jasper, I'll " "Don't talk about it, Laz." "All right. Good-day."
But I do say that if the white folks of the South can't stand up to a fair fight with the niggers at the polls, without cuttin', and murderin', and burnin', and shootin', and whippin', and Ku Kluxin', and cheatin', and swindlin', they are a damned no-'count people, and don't deserve no sort of show in the world no more than a mean, sneakin', venomous moccasin-snake there!"
I once travelled all through the State of Maine with one of them 'ere chaps. He was as thin as a whippin' post. His skin looked like a blown bladder arter some of the air had leaked out, kinder wrinkled and rumpled like, and his eye as dim as a lamp that's livin' on a short allowance of ile.
The meal progressed to the accompaniment of jarring speech, and Polly was glad when it was over. "Mamma, can we go up on the roof?" asked Katie. "The other folks are up there, and we'll keep away from the edge." "I don't care; but, remember, the first one that goes near that rail gets a whippin'!" The door slammed behind Maude, and Polly began to clear the table.
Oh, patther an' ave you dirty bosthoon blessed angels and holy marthyrs! kneelin' there in the middle o' the flure as if nothing happened look down on me this day, a poor vartuous dissolute woman! Oh, you disgrace to me and all belonging to you, and is it the impidence to ask my blessin' you have, when it's a whippin' at the cart's tail you ought to get, you shameless scapegrace?"
Thar wasn't any whippin' or any o' that sort o' thing, but it was work all day, f'om befo' daylight till afteh dark, an' we lived jes' anyhow." "How came he to start the town, then?" queried Hamilton. "Your description of him doesn't sound as though he were a man who would do much for you." "It was jes' because o' that, Ah think, that he did, sah. He was just, sah.
But when the little girl wuz a baby he took to drinkin', neglected his bizness, got mixed up with a whiskey ring, whipped Serepta not so very hard. He went accordin' to law, and the law of the United States don't approve of a man's whippin' his wife enough to endanger her life, it sez it don't. He made every move of hisen lawful and felt that Serepta hadn't ort to complain and feel hurt.
We jus got married in de kitchen and went to our log house. "I never got no beatins fum my master when I was a slave. But I seen collored men on de Bradley plantation git frammed out plenty. De whippin boss was Joe Sylvester. He had pets amongst de women folks, an let some of em off light when they deserved good beatins." "How did he punish his 'pets'?"
"Then you walk yourself right back over to the hotel and get 'em back of? of her, and let them clo'es you got on. Go!" he roughly pointed to the door. "She wouldn't give 'em back to me. She'd know I hadn't ought to yield up to temptation, and she'd help me to resist by refusing me my fashionable clo'es." "You tell her if you come back home without 'em, I'm whippin' you!
Then once in a while they come long tradin' and selling slaves. Nother way they sell em was at public auction. Iffen a slave steal from another master, like go in his smoke house or crib and steal, the sheriff have to whip him. They would have public whippin'. "How'd they know was freedom? How'd they not know it was freedom? Everybody went wild. They was jes' crazy cause they was free.
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