It reveals slavery in its true color, and in its maturity of repulsive hatefulness.

I owe it to truth, however, to say, that this was the first and the last time I ever saw Old Barney, or any other slave, compelled to kneel to receive a whipping.
I saw, at the stable, another incident, which I will relate, as it is illustrative of a phase of slavery to which I have already referred in another connection.

Besides two other coachmen, Col.

Lloyd owned one named William, who, strangely enough, was often called by his surname, Wilks, by white and colored people on the home plantation.

Wilks was a very fine looking man.