Patrollers, Ku Klux, and Reconstruction

"I remember the Ku Klux. They used to come and whip the niggers that

didn't have a pass. I think them was pateroles though. There was some

people too who used to steal slaves if they found them away from home,

and then they would sell them. I don't know what they called them. I

just remember the Ku Klux and the pateroles.

"The Ku Klux were the ones that whipped the niggers that they caught out

without a pass. I don't remember any Ku Klux whipping niggers after the

War because they were in politics.

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