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Slavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing

Behind the Bastards

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Is This a Joke, Man?

"It's kind of like we're kind of like, is this a joke, man? Like, okay, so wait, it's $1,000 fine. Okay, throw me in the patty wagon," he says. "You've been roughing me up my whole life." The article includes other firsthand accounts by enslaved persons of the use of these blood hounds Negro dogs.

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