One day he heard a patroller boasting how many niggers he had killed.

Our 'ciety thought you wuz a aidjucated nigger.

" "Dat's w'at I tells dese young niggers," groaned Mammy Jane, with a portentous shake of her turbaned head, "w'en I hears 'em gwine on wid deir foolishniss; but dey don' min' me.

You freed the nigger and you gave him the ballot, but you couldn't make a citizen out of him.

They'd whip the free niggers just the same as they did the slaves.

"'Did you'ns leave a lock of your hair with old Mas'r Lincoln?' "'Come down to Dixie to marry niggers, have ye?' and scores of taunts more insulting and obscene.

I 'cla' 'fo' Gawd, ef a white man wuz to eat a flapjack, an' it did n' give him de belly-ache, I 'cla' 'fo' Gawd he'd git out a search-wa'nt to see ef some nigger had n' stole dat flapjack goin' down his th'oat." "Mr. Bobbs has to do his work, Mother," put in Peter.

He didn't believe in whipping niggers and he didn't believe in selling niggers, and so my mammy and me, we didn't want to leave our mistress and massa.

I've seen such brutish doin'srunnin' niggers with hounds and whippin' them till they was bloody.

"I say, burn the nigger.

I 'range wid a nigger to take me 'cross da riber in er skift to de plantation where dey all was and 'bout fust folkses dat I see is Ella an' her peoples en lots of de famblys from de ole home place back in Tennessee

The compelled exercise contributed its part; and by the time the mate, to use his own expression, "had run the nigger into dock," which meant when he had got him safe within the hut, his senses and faculties had so far revived as to enable him to think and to speak.

" "Well, he's a nigger, and we don't want niggers for nothing; would you have your daughter marry a nigger?" "Oh, go back to your work; I never thought of such a thing.

He would tell long stories about hunting and shooting "runaway niggers," and detail with great apparent satisfaction the cruel and horrid punishments which he had inflicted.

Why, it was always full of gay company, and the colonel kept a nigger down there at the gate to invite in every traveler who passed.

"You naturally don't trust a nigger.

The only way to manage niggers is to keep them down, then you can control them, but not else.

She has some twenty acres devoted to flowers and vegetables, and she owns twenty 'niggers.'

We might bring the nigger through the hole!"

"Now it happen dat one er de niggers on de nex' plantation, one er ole Mars Henry Brayboy's niggers, had runned away de day befo', en tuk ter de swamp, en ole Mars Dugal' en some er de yuther nabor w'ite folks had gone out wid dere guns en dere dogs fer ter he'p 'em hunt fer de nigger; en de han's on our own plantation wuz all so flusterated dat

Nancy bought him, by intense labors in spinning flax, but found him an undesirable acquisition, and was often heard to declare, in the bitterness of her soul, when her husband returned from his drinking bouts, that she should never buy another nigger, she knew.

If they caught niggers out without a pass they would whip them.

You want us to treat niggers as equals.

Beside the regular task of picking cotton, averaging of the short staple, when the crop is good, 100 pounds a day to the hand, the ginning (extracting the seed,) and baling was done in the night. Said Mr. to me, while conversing upon the customary labor of slaves, 'I work my niggers in a hurrying time till 11 or 12 o'clock at night, and have them up by four in the morning.'

"He says the French are coming to set all the niggers free?"