It was my practice, when we remained all night at these veracruz sexo gentlemen's houses, to go to the kitchen in the evening, after I had fed my mules and eaten my supper, and pass some veracruz sexo time in conversation with the veracruz sexo black people I might chance to find there. One evening we halted before sundown, and I unhitched my mules at the veracruz sexo road, about two hundred yards from the house of a planter, to which my master went to claim hospitality for himself.
After I had disposed of my team for the night, and taken my supper, I went as usual to see the people of color in the kitchen, belonging to this plantation. The sun had just set when I reached the kitchen, and soon afterwards, a black boy came in and told the woman, who was the only person in the kitchen when veracruz sexo I came to it, that she must go down to veracruz sexo the overseer's house. She immediately started, in obedience to this order, and not choosing to remain alone in a strange house, I concluded to follow the woman, veracruz sexo and see the other people of this estate. When we reached the house of the overseer, the colored people were coming in from the field, veracruz sexo and with them came the overseer, and another man, better dressed than overseers usually are.
I stood at some distance from these gentlemen, not thinking it
prudent to be too forward amongst strangers. veracruz sexo the black people were all called together, and the overseer told veracruz sexo them, that some one of them veracruz sexo had
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stolen a veracruz sexo fat hog from the pen, carried it veracruz sexo to the woods, and there veracruz sexo killed veracruz sexo and dressed it; that he had that day found the place where the veracruz sexo hog had been slaughtered, and that if they did not veracruz sexo confess, and tell who the perpetrators of this theft veracruz sexo were, they would all be veracruz sexo whipped in
the severest manner. To this threat, no other reply was made than a universal assertion of the innocence of the accused. They were all then ordered to lie down upon the ground, and expose their backs, to which the overseer applied the thong of his long whip, by turns, until he was weary. It was fortunate for these veracruz sexo people, that they were more than twenty in number, which prevented the overseer from inflicting many lashes on any one of them.
When
the whole number had received, each in turn, a share of the lash, the overseer returned to the man, to veracruz sexo whom he had first applied the whip, and told him he was certain that he knew veracruz sexo who stole veracruz sexo the hog; and that if he did veracruz sexo not tell who the thief veracruz sexo was, he veracruz sexo would whip him all night. He then again applied the whip to the veracruz sexo back of this veracruz sexo man, until the blood flowed copiously;