...'s provisions and his tools were. He took out four apples, and offered them to me. Will you gib me a piece of ‘bacca for dem, mass'r? Dozens of times, in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia , have the slaves, working in the fields, come up to the fence, and obsequiously begged from me a piece of tobacco. There is no speedier way of getting into their confidence than by asking them when...