I heard an overseer boasting to this same master that he gave one of the boys seventy lashes, for not doing a job of work just as he thought it ought to be done.

One early morning I clim a ladder to get a little chunk and the overseer man, he seed me.

I give you the words of the conversation, which was prolonged to a great length, the overseer complaining of sham sicknesses of the slaves, and detailing the most disgusting struggle which is going on the whole time, on the one hand to inflict, and on the other, to evade oppression and injustice.

I was a house-servant an' de overseer dassent hit me a lick.

After giving the overseer directions for the morrow, I recollected an invitation to spend the night at the house of a friend, three miles away, on the road to Natchez.

I tole the overseer fore he whipped me he's show himself a better man than I was.

" "Where is my regiment?" "The Lancers rode away yesterday with General Stonemanall except haidqua'ters and one squadronyours, I thinkand they are acting escort to General Sykes at the overseers house beyond the oak grove.

"Well, you see, sir, we put some gun-cotton in a small canister, with a fuse cut to last fowr minutes, and hid it in one of the old workings the men had left; then they telt t' overseer they thowt t' water was coming in by quickly.

Mr. K heard that he had kicked up a fuss about it (being in despair at being torn from one's wife and children is called kicking up a fuss; this is a sample of overseer appreciation of human feelings), and said that if the fellow wasn't willing to go with him, he did not wish to be bothered with any niggers down there who were to be troublesome, so he might stay behind.'

Ole Gundover's overseer war my marster, an' he used ter lib in dis bery house.

His daddy wuz a' overseer befo' 'im, an' it come nachul fer him ter be a nigger-driver.