The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements — John Shaqi
The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His AchievementsBrown, William Wells
History
The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements
Brown, William Wells
African Americans -- Biography
Doyles's. On my reaching Mr. Porter's, he had escaped with his
family. I understood there that the alarm had already spread, and I
immediately returned to bring up those sent to Mr. Doyles's and Mr.
Howell Harris's; the party I left going on to Mr. Francis's, having
told them I would join them in that neighborhood. I met those sent to
Mr. Doyles's and Mr. Howell Harris's returning, having met Mr. Doyles
on the road and killed him. Learning from some who joined them, that
Mr. Harris was from home, I immediately pursued the course taken by
the party gone on before; but knowing that they would complete the
work of death and pillage at Mr. Francis's before I could get there,
I went to Mr. Peter Edwards's, expecting to find them there; but they
had been there already. I then went to Mr. John T. Barrow's; they had
been there and murdered him. I pursued on their track to Captain Newitt
Harris's. I found the greater part mounted and ready to start; the
men, now amounting to about forty, shouted and hurrahed as I rode up;
some were in the yard loading their guns, others drinking. They said
Captain Harris and his family had escaped; the property in the house
they destroyed, robbing him of money and other valuables. I ordered
them to mount and march instantly; this was about nine or ten o'clock,
Monday morning. I proceeded to Mr. Levi Waller's, two or three miles
distant. I took my station in the rear, and as it was my object to
carry terror and devastation wherever we went, I placed fifteen or
twenty of the best mounted and most to be relied on in front, who
generally approached the houses as fast as their horses could run; this
was for two purposes, to prevent their escape and strike terror to the
inhabitants--on this account I never got to the houses, after leaving
Mrs. Whitehead's, until the murders were committed, except in one case.
I sometimes got in sight in time to see the work of death completed,
viewed the mangled bodies as they lay, in silent satisfaction, and
immediately started in quest of other victims. Having murdered Mrs.
Waller and ten children, we started for Mr. William Williams's. We
killed him and two little boys that were there: while engaged in this,
Mrs. Williams fled, and got some distance from the house; but she was
pursued, overtaken, and compelled to get up behind one of the company,
who brought her back, and after showing her the mangled body of her
lifeless husband, she was told to get down and lie by his side, where
she was shot dead. I then started for Mr. Jacob Williams's, where the
family were murdered. Here we found a young man named Drury, who had
come on business with Mr. Williams; he was pursued, overtaken, and
shot. Mrs. Vaughan's was the next place we visited; and after murdering
the family here, I determined on starting for Jerusalem. Our number
amounted now to fifty or sixty, all mounted and armed with guns, axes,
swords, and clubs. On reaching Mr. James W. Parker's gate, immediately
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