Slave patrol
Slave patrols—traditionally known as patrollers, patterrollers, pattyrollers or paddy rollers by enslaved persons of African descent—were organized groups of armed men who monitored and enforced discipline upon slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states. The slave patrols' function was to police enslaved persons, especially those who escaped or were viewed as defiant. They also formed river patrols to prevent escape by boat.
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Slave patrol
Slave patrols—traditionally known as patrollers, patterrollers, pattyrollers or paddy rollers by enslaved persons of African descent—were organized groups of armed men who monitored and enforced discipline upon slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states. The slave patrols' function was to police enslaved persons, especially those who escaped or were viewed as defiant. They also formed river patrols to prevent escape by boat.
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policing, soldiering, detecting, tracking, marksmanship, horsemanship, boatmanship
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patrollers, patterrollers, pattyrollers, paddy rollers
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