Show Early Slavery in South Carolina Accordingly in South Carolina the negroes were worked to death and the relations between the slave and his master were very different from what thoy ware in Virginia and Maryland The negroes in South Carolina were simply heathen eava ges wedlock was simply unknown among them they were kept ia brute like ignorance and were often treated with barbarous cruelty Oonseqaently instead of becoming softened in disposition dis-position and partially civilized like their brethren in Maryland and Virginia Vir-ginia these negroes were as oily and ferocioaa as any tribe of savages in Africa Like the dog that is used to being kickedthey were always ready to snarl and bite They were a dangerous class of society prone to commit Crimea of violence and to run away or rise in rebellion when occasion offered Ic the course ot the eighteenth century there were several alarming insurrections which were suppressed with atrocious barbarity bar-barity The planters lived in perpetual perpet-ual terror A sort of standing army in the shape of well drilled miltia 8000 strong was kept continually on duty and part of the business of this I miltia was to visit all the plantations and search the negro quarters for concealed con-cealed weapons They wore also authorized au-thorized to flog any stray negro they might chance to meet without stopping stop-ping to ask questions For the murder mur-der of a master or overseer negroes were sometimes burned at the stake or exposed in an iron cage and left to starve JoJtn JFYsie in Harpers Magazine Mag-azine |