Touching slavery, the white people to whom my parents belonged were tolerant and did not allow their slaves to be abused by patrollers and outsiders.
Patrollers "The patrollerswas just a set of mean men organized in every section of the country.
Patrollers "My father said that the patrollers would run you and ketch you and whip you if you didn't have a pass, when you was away from the pass.
Patrollers "My mother told me that when the boys would go out to a dance, they would tie a rope across the road to make the horses of the patrollers stumble and give the dancers time to get away.
Patrollers "You had to get a pass from owners to go out at night.
Patrollers "A slave couldn't go nowhere without a pass.
De young people today has much better opportunities than when I was a child, and much better than dey had in slavery days, because dar ain't no patrollers to whip em.
Yas suh, my folks used to talk a heap and tell me lots of tales of slavery days, and how de patrollers used to whip em when dey wanted to go some place and didn't have de demit to go.
In the old days the patrollers used to whip them for being out without a pass but the Ku Klux used to whip them for disorderly living.
The patrollerswere mean white people who called themselves making the niggers stay home.
Then patrollers sure would get you and beat you up.
Patrollers "Me and old lady Eford would be out in the yard and I would hear her cuss the pateroles because they didn't want folks to 'buse their niggers.
Patrollers "I have heard that the pateroles used to run the slaves if they didn't have a pass from their mistress and master.
Patrollers and Good Masters "The onlypatrollers I knew of was some that come on the place once and got hurt.
All I can remember was the patrollers and the Ku Klux.
Patrollers "Sometimes the pateroles would do the devil with you if they caught you out without a pass.
Befo' freedom come, de patrollers was strong dere, and whipped any niggers dey kotched out without a pass; wouldn't let dem go to church without a pass.
When the Patrollers was started there, they never did bother Mr. Bonny's slaves.
The patrollers rode 'round and ketched slaves who ran away without passes.
De patrollers watch us like a hawk, but we had our passes and we told dem if dey bothered us our marster would handle 'em.
Uncle George said that the patrollers saw that the colored people were in their houses at 8 o'clock every night.
Patrollers "I've heered them say the pateroles is out.
Old missis told the patrollers they couldn't come on her place and interfere with her hands.
Patrollers "I heard my papa talk about the patrollers.
Some of de owners would not stand for it and if de slaves would tell de massa he might whip de patrollers if he could ketch dem.
De patrollers wouldn't allow de slaves to hold night services, and one night dey caught me mother out praying.
Them patrollers roved trying to ketch niggers without passes to whup 'em.
Dem patrollers tied you to a whipping post iffen dey caught you out after 10 o'clock.
The slipper-offers were often captured, but Mammy Ann and her little boy William (that's me) escaped the sharp eyes of the patrollers and found refuge with a family of northern symphatizers living in Nashville.
But when dey caught any of master's niggers without passes, dey jest locked him up in the guard house and master come down in the mawnin' and git 'em out, but dem patrollers better not whip one.
And when the patrollers get 'em caught, they was due for a heavy licking that would last for a long time.
De Patrollerswas de law, kind of like de policeman now.
Dem railroaders was honest, and dey didn't take no presents, but de patrollers was low white trash!
De patrollers would go about in de quarters at nights to see if any of de slaves was out or slipped off.
As we sleep on de dirt floors on pallets, de patrollers would walk all over and on us and if we even grunt dey would whip us.
One night I was sleeping on cotton and the patrollers come to our house and ask for water.
I never tried it, maybe, because mostly they was caught by patrollers and fetched back for a flogging--and I had whippings enough already!
We would be sorry when dark, as de patrollers would walk through de quarters and homes of de slaves all times of night wid pine torch lights to whip de niggers found away from deir home.
He was de low-down Sesesh dat would take what a poor runaway nigger had to give for his chance to git away, and den give him 'structions dat would lead him right into de hands of de patrollers and git him caught or shot!
If you had a wife you could go to see her Wednesday night and Saturday night and stay with her until Monday morning and if you were caught away any other time the patrollers would catch you.
The patrollers hit him as he went over the fence down at Indian Bay.
Patrollers "I have heard a great deal of talk about the pateroles--how they tied ropes across the road and trapped them.
Patrollers "I have heard my mother and father tell many a story of the pateroles.
Patrollers "I heard about the pateroles catching the colored folks.
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.
Interviewer's Comment Here again, there is a confusion of patrollers with Ku Klux.
The patrollers had no jurisdiction over the Curry slaves, they were given permits by the Currys to go and come, and Emma said if one of those patrollers whipped one of "ole Miss's slaves, she would have sure sued them.
De patrollers sho' would get you an' dat's one thing made you stick to your wuk.
He woke everybody at daylight, and sometime he help de patrollers to search de houses for to ketch any slaves widout a pass.
I hear him say so, and I hear him tell more than once dat if he ever hear de patrollers a comin' wid blood hounds, to run to de lot and stick his foots in de mud and de dogs wouldn't follow him.
Mammy said dat de patrollers was as thick as flies 'round dese plantations all de time, and my daddy sho' had to slip 'round to see mammy.
Slaves couldn't go away from de place unless dey had a pass from de marse to show de patrollers when dey caught dem out.
The children would run into the master's place and the patrollers couldn't get them 'cause the master wouldn't let them.
He remembers seeing the patrollers coming around and checking up on the 'niggers'.
Befo' freedom de patrollers marched up and down de road but didn't bother us.
The patrollerswere there and we had to have a pass to get out any.
The UIPS patrollers were on directed Tac Ops missions: cite our messages to Red Fox and Blue Fox past half-hour, info recorded in Tac Ops Actions Register, your Headquarters.
The scene contracted, and the vacated space filled with numbers and codes representing the few UIPS recon-patrollers in the Plutonian sector followed by a tabulation of INOR's combined assault fleet.
Raiding and harassing their transports, attacking and destroying UIPS patrollers in the Zone, and now, the inventory tax.
Transmissions from the patrollers Tac Ops systems, and scansplays of their external observations ceased instantly at time of attack.
This is my initial report of attacks on two of our recon-patrollers while on UIPS-directed missions in the Planet Pluto Special Zone.
This is follow-on to my initial report of attacks on our recon-patrollers in Planet Pluto Special Zone.
The missions of the two patrollers have not been completed.
They'll also know we can maintain spunnel contact and relay messages to and from our patrollers and other craft through the construction site.
Two good pilots dead; two impossible-to-replace patrollers destroyed.
Master Cannon Walker did not allow any patrollers to boss his slaves when any of dem was stopped on de pike and ask who dey belonged to all dey had to say was Cannon, Sam or Jim Walker and dey never bothered them.
If they caught a slave off his plantation without a pass the patrollers often would flog them.
He said he would die first, so he hid three days and three nights, under houses and in the woods, looking for a chance to cross the line but de patrollers were so hot on his trail he couldn't make it.
If dey didn't, de patrollers would get off de horses and whip dem.
De patrollers would git us and make us show our pass, and we got to be in our cabin by 9 o'clock.
De patrollers (accent on the first syllable) used blacksnake whips.
We'd better go home, and not all go one way, cause de patrollers might git us all inter trouble, an' we must try to slip home by hook or crook.
She never wanted the patrollers around prowling in our cabins, and poking their noses into our business.
Outwitting the vigilance of the patrollers and home guards, they established these meetings miles apart, extending into several States.
I have heard that patrollers were on Kent Island and the colored people would go out in the country on the roads, create a disturbance to attract the patrollers' attention.
The white cappers or patrollers in all of the counties of Southern Maryland scoured the swamps, rivers and fields without success.
He told dem dreaded whitepatrollers dat I was a freeman and a 'parson'.
In slavery when de patrollers rode up and down de roads, once a nigger boy stole out to see his gal, all dressed up to kill.
When the bush-whackers and patrollers come around dere, us niggers suffered lots with beatings.
We had to have a pass from our massa to go from one plantation to another, and if we went without a pad the patrollers would ketch us and whip us.
De patrollers would git us if we didn't have a pass; even if we went to church wid white folks we had to have a pass.
I heard my mammy and daddy talk 'bout de patrollers but I don't know much.
The patrollers once caught my daddy out at night without a pass and whipped him a little, just for mischief.
Patrollers from one plantation had nothing to do with the negroes from another plantation, as they could not even come on the other plantation unless they had permission.
Dey had to git a pass to go to church same as any other place, or de patrollers would catch 'em and beat 'em.
Patrollers whup daddy one time when they come to de house and find him widout a pass.
Dey had patrollers den, and if dey caught you off de place dey would have twelve men to whip you.
Patrollers did not bother any of the four or five slave families on the Alexander place, for Mat Alexander was his own patroller.
Patrollers often come to search for stray slaves; wouldn't take your word for it.
If de patrollers caught us widout a pass dey would whip us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patrollers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
