Patrollers "I heard about thepateroles catching the colored folks.
I used to hear my people talk about pateroles but I don't reckon I can recall now what they said.
Patrollers "I have been out in the bushes when the pateroles would come up and gone into log houses and get niggers and whip their asses.
The pateroles was white folks that was supposed to catch colored folks when they were out without a pass.
He would go Saturday night; if he went any other time and the pateroles could catch him, they would whip him just the same as though he belonged to them.
Pateroles "Patterollers didn't bother us, but we were in that country.
He was one of the ones that the pateroles couldn't catch.
Pateroles did git after them and bring them in with the hounds, but when they got in, that settled it.
When the pateroles would be trying to break in some place where he was, and the other niggers would be standing 'round frightened to death and wonderin' what to do, he would be gettin' up a shovelful of ashes.
Patrollers "I have heard people talk about the pateroles raising sand with the niggers.
When any of Madden's slaves were out and the pateroles got after them, if they could make it home, that ended it.
If you overstayed your time when your master had let you go out, he would notify the pateroles and they would hunt you up and turn you over to him.
My mother and father used to go off to places to dance and the pateroles would get after them.
They shot him--the pateroles did--but he whipped them.
Some of them would get caught sometimes and the pateroles would whip them.
That was after the war when the slaves had been freed, but the pateroles still got after them.
When my father got back home, he told Colonel Dortch and Colonel Dortch went after them pateroles and laid the law down to them--told them that he was ready to kill 'em.
I have heard about the pateroles but I never did know much about them.
A gentleman what worked on the place where I lived said that if you didn't have a pass during slave times, that if the pateroles caught you, they would whip you and make you run back home.
I couldn't tell you whether the pateroles ever bothered my father or not.
I have heered my father talk about thepateroles too.
The pateroles got after a slave named Ben Holmes once and run him clean to our place.
These pateroles or whatever they was got after him and claimed they were coming to get him, and the old man and the old woman he stayed with took him upstairs and said they would protect him if the paterolescame back.
If they didn't they'd git a brushin' from the pateroles if they got caught and the masters were likely to give them another light brushin' when they got home.
I was a great big boy when I heard them talking about the pateroles catching them or whipping them.
Ku Klux, Patrollers, Robbers "I've heard of the paterolesand Ku Klux.
The pateroles were still operating when I was old enough to remember those old quarters.
Pateroles "The pateroles were for Niggers just like police and sheriffs were for white folks.
My mother told me about seein' the pateroles before the War and the Ku Klux Klan afterwards.
That was after slavery, but the pateroles still got after you.
Patrollers "Me and old lady Eford would be out in the yard and I would hear her cuss the paterolesbecause they didn't want folks to 'buse their niggers.
There was mighty few darkies could get out to go to dances because the pateroles was so bad after them.
I remember that they said the pateroles would whip them if they would catch them out without a pass.
Patrollers, Jayhawkers, Ku Klux, and Ku Klux Klan "They had pateroles going 'round watching the colored people to keep them from running off.
He never had no trouble with the pateroles either.
The pateroles would run them and catch them and whip them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pateroles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
