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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My second trip. (search)
ever know a colored person who said he preferred slavery? Oh, yes, mass'r, said the slave, I's knowed plenty dat would say so to white folks; kase if the boss knowed we wanted to be freemen, he would kick and knock us ‘bout, and maybe kill us. Dey of'en does kill dem on de plantations. Murder will out. Did you ever see a slave killed on a plantation? He replied that he did once see a girl killed on a plantation in Georgia. He said that he heard his boss, a person of the name of Rees, tell his overseer to take some slaves down to Brother Holmes in (I think) Gainsborough county — or from Gainsborough to Hancock county--for I have forgotten which of them the old man named first--and, said the brute, with what niggers I have got there and these, I think I can raise a crop. If you kill two niggers and four horses and don't raise a crop, I'll not blame you; but if you don't, and still don't raise a crop, I'll think you have n't drove them at all. The monster added--You needn