He had once whipped a slave so severely that he died in consequence of it, and it was soon after ascertained that he was wholly innocent of the offence charged against him.

That slave, he said, had haunted him ever since.
Soon after we commenced weeding our cotton, some of the hands who were threatened with a whipping for not finishing their tasks, ran away.

The overseer and myself went out after them, taking with us five bloodhounds, which were kept on the Estate for the sole purpose of catching runaways.

There were no other hounds in the vicinity, and the overseers of the neighboring plantations used to borrow them to hunt their runaways.

A Mr.Crop, who lived about ten miles distant, had two packs, and made it his sole business to catch slaves with them.