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" He took his seat on the trunk of a tree to inspect them, with his gun in his hand to shoot the first who should shrink. About twelve o'clock at night he fell asleep. The slaves seized his gun, shot him, and burnt him to ashes on the fires which he was... "
A Treatise on the capability of our Eastern possessions to produce those ... - Page 17
by John Jackson (of Hull.) - 1829 - 37 pages
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The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

462 pages
...sluink. About twelve o'clock at night he fell asleep. The slaves seized his gun, shot him, and burned him to ashes on the fires which he was compelling...make at midnight of the wood they were employed in clearng. The case was so glaring, and ;he planter's cruelty so notorious, that the matter was hushed...
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The Universal review; or, Chronicle of the literature of all nations, Volume 2

496 pages
...They remonstrated with the overseer, and became refractory, on which the planter undertook to controul them. He took his seat on the trunk of a tree to inspect...and the slaves were not punished ; though while at Gharlestown I saw an account of a young Negro woman being burnt to death in South Carolina the week...
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Colonial Slavery: Letters to the Right Hon. William Huskisson, President of ...

John Ashton Yates - 1824 - 128 pages
...They remonstrated with the overseer and became refractory, on which the planter undertook to controul them. He took his seat on the trunk of a tree to inspect...cruelty so notorious, that the matter was hushed up BR well as it could be, and the slaves were not punished ; though while at Charleston I saw an account...
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The Terrific Register: Or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences, and ...

1825 - 844 pages
...remonstrated with the overseer, and became refractory, on which the planter undertook to control them himself. He took his seat on the trunk of a tree to inspect...and the slaves were not punished ; though while at Charlestown I saw an account of a young negro woman being burnt to death in South Carolina the week...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 9

1827 - 616 pages
...shoot the first who should shrink. About twelve o'clock at night he fell asleep. The slaves «eized his gun, shot him, and burnt him to ashes on the fires...up as well as it could be, and the slaves were not Funished; though while at Charlestown, saw an account of a young negro woman being burnt to death in...
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