Thirty years a slave From bondage to freedom The institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter . -longed to the regiment at Nelson. The\ said:Hello! where you going with that nigger? Thetwo men in charge of me replied: We are going totake him to Panola jail. Why, said one of thesoldiers, there is no jail there; the Yanks passedthrough and pulled down the doors and windows ofthe jail, and let all the prisoners out. This causeda stop; and a council of war was held in the fencecorner, the result of which was a decision to take mel)ack to old Jack McGees. After we
Thirty years a slave From bondage to freedom The institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter . -longed to the regiment at Nelson. The\ said:Hello! where you going with that nigger? Thetwo men in charge of me replied: We are going totake him to Panola jail. Why, said one of thesoldiers, there is no jail there; the Yanks passedthrough and pulled down the doors and windows ofthe jail, and let all the prisoners out. This causeda stop; and a council of war was held in the fencecorner, the result of which was a decision to take mel)ack to old Jack McGees. After we had g-otten backthere, they took me and gave me another flogging tosatisfy the madam. I was never so lacerated could hardly walk, so sore and weak was I. Thelaw was given me that if ever I was caught out in the, public road again, by any soldier, I was to be morning I was sent to the held to plow; and,lliough I was very stiff and my llesh seemed sore totill l)onf, my skin drawn and shriveled as if dead, Iliad, at li asl, to make the attempt to work. To havesaid: Master, 1 am too sore to work. would only. 11. SlyAVERY AND THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 137 have g*otten me another whipping. So I obeyed with-out a word. REBELS BURN THEIR COTTON. The capture of Memphis b^- the Union troopsclosed the principal cotton market of the country, andthere was, as a consequence, an immense accumula-tion of the product in the hands of the farmers ofthat reg-ion. They were, therefore, compelled to re-sort to temporary- expedients for its protection fromthe elements. Old Master Jack had his piled up in along- rick, and shelters built over it. Other farmersdid the same. As cotton was almost the only sourceof revenue for the farmers, and as there was now noopportunity of g-etting it to market, there was such adearth of money as had seldom, if ever, been known,and a corresponding dearth of those necessaries oflife which money was the only means of accumulations of
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