While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark period in American history.

Trevor P. Wardlaw
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Surrounded by hatred and bitterness, slaves and their masters endured a long history of abuse. The ugliness is best seen in the gruesome, gruesome details of such sadistic incidents as the hanging of over 300 slaves in the Natchez district of Mississippi, or the brutal whipping of a pregnant woman and her seven-year-old daughter by a slave trader in Charleston, South Carolina.

Source: Slaves And Overseers: Antiquated Hate Crimes And Peculiar Relationships

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