The secretary of the U.S. Navy expressed horror at the sight of barefoot men and women locked together with the weight of an ox-chain in the beating sun, forced to walk the distance to damnation in a state farther south, and riding behind them, “a white man on horse back, carrying pistols in his belt, and who, as we passed him, had the impudence to look us in the face without blushing.”
These sorts of anecdotes are extremely interesting when you consider how many people make nonsense excuses like "It was a different time and people didn't know any better back then."
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