Word: brot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selling liquor to Negroes, but in spite of it the slave Steven was always getting drunk. When he drank, he tried to escape. When he was caught, he was flogged. On Aug. 10, 1840, his master's diary shows that he was beaten twice: "After he had been Brot home, [I] Hand Cuffed him and Floged Him. In the first place I Knocked him Down at the Building-he then ran away, but was soon Brought Back again . . . I gave Him Late in the afternoon a tolerable severe whiping." Master William Johnson thought he knew how to handle slaves...