Source: This interview was with Perry Lewis in Baltimore, Maryland. The interview was

conducted in 1987 by a black interviewer identified as Rogers in the final

transcripts.

I was born on Kent Island about 86 years ago.... My father was a freeman and my

mother-e-slave, owned by Thomas Totson, who-owned-a-small-farm

on which Twas

bom in a log cabin....

As you know the mother was the owner of the children that she brought into the world.

Mother being a slave made me a slave. She cooked

and worked on the farm, ate

whatever was in the farmhouse and did her share of work

to keep and maintain

the

Tolsons. They being poor, not have a large place or a number of slaves

to increase

their

wealth, made them little above the free colored

people and with no knowledge, they

could not teach me or any one else to read....

I have heard that patrollers were on Kent Island and the colored people would go out in

the country on the roads, create disturbance to attract

the patrollers' attention. They

would tie ropes and grape vines across the roads

, so when the patrollers would come

to

the scene of the disturbance on horseback at full

tilt, they would be caught, throwing

those who would come in contact with the rope

or vine off the horse, sometimes badly

injuring the riders. This would create hatred between

the slaves, the free people, the

patrollers and other white people who were

concerned....

I do not remember being sick but I have heard mother say, when she or her children

were sick, the white doctor who attended the

Tolsons treated us and the only herbs

I

can recall were life-everlasting boneset and woodditney (types of herbs used for medicine), from each of

which a tea could be made.

This is about all I can recall.

Document Question:

According to Document C, what was happening with patrollers that was creating hatred among different

people?