James Boe and the Slavery Business

The bully boys spent months engaging in this business of buying slaves from a pirate taking them into the united states smuggling them in and then turning them into the government. Jim buoy had the most personally violent task of the whole enterprise, conveying the contraband through the swamps and bayous bringing them in lots of 40 at a time as many as one or two men could handle although the blacks were chained boe found little need for fetters. The frightened africans knew nothing of the country and had nowhere to go while they were told enough of alligators snakes and hostile natives to know that safety if not happiness lay with the boeys.