3/34 This was done on the public highway, before the mistress's door. Mr.T.well remembered when it was lawful for any man to shoot down his slave, under no greater penalty than twenty-five pounds currency; and he knew of cases in which this had been done. Just after the insurrection in 1816, white men made a regular sport of shooting negroes. A young man had sworn that he would kill ten negroes before a certain time. |