My job is to keep the slave niggers in line and when they find themselves out of line, I am obliged to crack my whip over their sable flesh until the animal is properly tamed. This is what I've been hired to do. Now, I hear-tell that some of those Yankee, nigger-loving big wigs are talking seriously about letting all the niggers free. Claim they don't believe they are animals. But, I watch em' everyday; from the crack of dawn, till' that hot Carolina sun decides to hide itself again. And the only thing that one may find 'special'� about this group of ignorant animals is that they adapt and wane very easily. I can crack their backs until their blood is covering me on let's say a Friday, and by Saturday that same one is right back singing and jolly again. I can snatch a newborn babe right from under its mammy's tit and sell it, and that same wench mammy is right back tending to her duties even better than before.

People are talking about what the 'educated'� and 'free'� nigger is capable of doing. They say some have special abilities. Yeah, I've heard of one of 'em being praised by Thomas Jefferson himself for making almanacs and designing the Yankee capitol (and they weren't set free then) and of em' writing books that white people actually buy. I've even heard talk of them fighting in our wars for us and actually being called heroes. Just because a handful of niggers have some abilities as do white folks does not disprove that they're all still a bunch animals. Perhaps, these niggers with some white ability have been given an anointing from God to be able to better serve their masters. Maybe instead of all of 'em being good for nothing and stupid, they can indeed be good for something. But all of their head niggers would like for us to believe that they are just as human as us and we should just let 'em free and live happily ever after, together. But this proves my point, that they are still stupid animals. They don't seem to understand the fact of the matter, which is that no matter what these niggers do, whether they're inventing things, or fighting in our wars, or even trying to teach other niggers, they were brought here to be niggers, and even if they are indeed 'set free'�, they will in fact die here as niggers.

* The above piece is fictitious and is for the purpose of a summation of the irrational mindset of White Southerners [specifically overseers (often called 'crackers'� due to their ability to swiftly and consistently 'crack'� the whip)] during the ending of the era of slavery. Co-written by H. Elisha

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