Allowed by their owners to bring up their children and organize their domestic lives, they carried out their chores, cooking, making clothes, and their leisure activities all within distance of their masters house enabled the slave community to flourish. ...
His clothes were torn off piecemeal and scattered in the crowd, people catching the shreds and putting them away as mementos........It was horrible- the man dying by slow torture in the midst of smoke from his own burning flesh...........Then the eyes were burned out and irons were thrust down his throat." ...