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back and forth the wholl day [scoreing?] it to those that could not keepe up and if the worthy brute got tired of whipping he would make one of the slaves do it and he said he would rather be whiped twist by a white-man than by a slave once for the slave knows that if he does not put in his best licks he will get it himself. The slaves have imbibed [written between lines] flo [inter-line writing ends] freely of the idea that this war will eventually free them. If the government was to take the proper steps in arming or if they were insured their freedom they would seized arms with joy and fight like tigers. A [word crossed out] overseere [end crosse dout word] negroe overseere is not a creature of the immagination nor a speeces of animal that existed during the antedeluvan ages and finally became extinct