Patrollers "I was at a ball one night.

Niggers used to tie ropes across the road so that the patrollers' horses would trip up.

Patrollers, Jayhawkers, Ku Klux, and Ku Klux Klan "Pateroles, Jayhawkers, and the Ku Klux came before the war.

" Interviewer's Comment Badgett's distinctions between jayhawkers, Ku Klux, patrollers, and Ku Klux Klan are most interesting.

I always thought that they had the Klux Klan and the patrollers confused.

I know bout the patrollers too.

Ku Klux come since freedom but the patrollers was in slavery times.

I used to hear the niggers talkin' bout when the patrollers got after em

They had a class of white people known as patrollers.

The patrollers were before and during the War and the Ku Klux Klan came after the War.

The patrollers I remember.

To intimidate the slaves, the overseers were connected with the patrollers, not only to watch our slaves, but sometimes for the rewards for other slaves who had run away from other plantations.

The patrollers were many in the county; they would whip any colored person caught off the place after night.

"You know the Eastern Shore of Maryland was in the most productive slave territory and where farming was done on a large scale; and in that part of Maryland where there were many poor people and many of whom were employed as overseers, you naturally heard of patrollers and we had them and many of them.

I have heard that patrollers were on Kent Island and the colored people would go out in the country on the roads, create a disturbance to attract the patrollers' attention.

I have heard that patrollers were on Kent Island and the colored people would go out in the country on the roads, create a disturbance to attract the patrollers' attention.

They would tie ropes and grape vines across the roads, so when the patrollers would come to the scene of the disturbance on horseback and at full tilt, they would be throwing those who would come in contact with the rope or vine off the horse; sometimes badly injuring the riders.

This would create hatred between the slaves, the free people, the patrollers and other white people who were concerned.

The white cappers or patrollers in all of the counties of Southern Maryland scoured the swamps, rivers and fields without success.

"Sometimes Negro slave runaways who were apprehended by the patrollers, who kept a constant watch for escaped slaves, besides being flogged, would be branded with a hot iron on the cheek with the letter 'R'.

"We all thought of running off to Canada or to Washington, but feared the patrollers.

As a result, the patrollers were numerous.

I remember of seeing Jim Revell coming home very much battered and beaten up as a result of an encounter with a number of free people and white people and those who were members of the patrollers.

"Once before de wah, I was ridin Lazy, my donkey, a few miles from de boss' place at Fairview, when along came a dozen or more patrollers.

He told dem dreaded white patrollers dat