| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Often in describing a runaway, especially at the beginning of the century, a master would say that the culprit is back had been seared by the whip. 2[2 Raleigh Register, September 12, 1803.] It was so general a custom for masters to whip runaways that some planters in advertising for their slaves promised them amnesty if they would return of their own accord.
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