. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. A HISTORIAN'S lamb, he did not think that his slaves needed anything of the ; Sometimes, the slaves' game was not quite as wild as raccoons and opossums. Tidewater farmers allowed their hogs to graze freely in the woods, where they lived cheaply off acorns and roots until rounded up for slaughter. Multitudes of these hogs lived in coastal woodlands, and their rapacious grazing habits contributed to the forests' parklike appearance. Many hogs grew wild over generations, resembling wild boars. Runa
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. A HISTORIAN'S lamb, he did not think that his slaves needed anything of the ; Sometimes, the slaves' game was not quite as wild as raccoons and opossums. Tidewater farmers allowed their hogs to graze freely in the woods, where they lived cheaply off acorns and roots until rounded up for slaughter. Multitudes of these hogs lived in coastal woodlands, and their rapacious grazing habits contributed to the forests' parklike appearance. Many hogs grew wild over generations, resembling wild boars. Runaway slaves relied heavily on feral hogs, but Parker pointed out that they were also important to plantation workers still in bondage. One of his harshest taskmasters was a farmer named Elisha Buck. "He did not treat us at all well," Parker noted, "and it was not often that we had all we wanted to ; Buck caught and whipped Parker and another slave the first time that they killed a free-grazing hog. "It did not do much good to either of us," recalled Parker, "for on the following Sunday I went into the woods again and got another pig which I dressed in the ; He realized that there were many poor whites quite willing to take advantage of a neighboring planter's hogs so long as a slave took the risk for them. "As I did not have every advantage of a first-class slaughter house I was obliged to manage as best I could," Parker wrote. "Accordingly I built a fire and gave the pig a good singeing and while he was warm from the effects of the fire. I put him into water, and then scraped him with a case- knife and finally got him clean. "When he was properly dressed," he continued, "I carried him on my shoulder about three miles, and turned him over to a 'poor white' who took him to a neighboring town the next day, and sold him for me. I got back to quarters before the hands were called in the morning so that n
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