She had been set that night to mind Mrs. Hicks's baby,
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young girl between fifteen and sixteen years of age, mangling her person in the most horrible manner, breaking her nose and breastbone with a stick,
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. Thomas Lanman, of St. Michael's, killed two slaves, one of whom he killed with a hatchet, by knocking his brains out.
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Demby had become unmanageable. He was setting a dangerous example to the other slaves
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It is better that a dozen slaves should suffer under the lash, than that the overseer should be convicted, in the presence of the slaves, of having been at fault."
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There must be no answering back to him; no explanation was allowed a slave, showing himself to have been wrongfully accused.
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own a thousand slaves,
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when they pleased,
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Barney, a man between fifty and sixty years of age, uncover his bald head, kneel down upon the cold, damp ground, and receive upon his naked and toil-worn shoulders more than thirty lashes at the time.
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whipped, but seemed to take no pleasure in it. He was called by the slaves a good overseer.