Chapter 35: The Traitor

Maybe it was this fish that slipped through the net and resisted, maybe it was Raiden They listened to Sheffield's words and implemented the true meaning of racial equality, in short, the Yankee kneeling in front of Sheffield was much more miserable than Adelaide who was currently lying in the warm sea water yesterday, some of the withered yellow hair was stuck to his cheeks with blood, one eye was already high and swollen, and the whole person knelt on the ground, without the courage to dedicate himself to his ideals at all.

took the towel handed over by Rice and wiped it indiscriminately, Sheffield turned around and looked at the person who had broken away from low-level interests, the black girl Les moved a chair behind the owner understandingly, Sheffield sat down unceremoniously, stretched out his foot to pick up the head of the Yankee like a dead man, and smiled admiringly, "I should have been quite handsome before I was beaten, sneer, as for now?" Do you think that this Yankee is like a leper dog all the time, hahaha......"

Sheffield's words made the overseers, including Raidon, burst into laughter, and the arrogant laughter made the black slaves who got up early to work look sideways for a while, curiously looking at what these white men were doing, "Don't look at it, harvest the last bit of cotton in the past few days, and then bulldoze the cotton field!" Immediately, a white overseer came over and urged the black slaves to work.

"You get vanity from the bow of the black slaves?" The Yankee who was tied up by the flowers saw Sheffield and their reaction was weak and said, Sheffield originally thought that this Yankee was also the same hard, but the next sentence changed its taste, "I'm white, you can't treat me like a black slave, as long as you let me go, I can take you back the black slave lost on the Sheffield plantation, how about it?" ”

Sheffield's face instantly became quite exciting, he had always thought that the members of the Underground Railway under the guise of emancipating black slaves were all people who fought for their ideals? It turns out that these guys, who are adventurers at best, by the standards of the proletariat, do look up to the members of the Underground Railroad movement, "Rice, come here!" Sheffield pointed to the soft Yankee and said unceremoniously, "It's these guys, who keep saying that they want to send you to the north and see what happens to him now!" ”

As he spoke, Sheffield stood up, grabbed the Yankee by the hair, and made him kneel in front of the black girl Less and sarcastically said, "What's your name?" Adelaide has a friend like you, will you regret it for the rest of your life in heaven......"

"What, Adelaide is dead? You killed him? His life is protected by the law, and you can't do that! Thomas exclaimed incoherently with a look of horror. It was different from what had been said at the beginning, Thomas and Adelaide, the sport he considered more of a risk, but not worth his life.

Now that Adelaide is dead, Thomas shuddered in his heart, will it be his turn next? Looking up, I happened to bump into Sheffield's smiling expression, "Aren't you too stupid?" Know I'm going to kill you? ”

"No, no! It's a crime to kill, don't kill me! Thomas hugged Sheffield's thighs and begged for mercy with snot and tears, "You just beat the black slaves, I'm white!" As soon as Thomas's words came out, Rice's sympathy, which had some sympathy for him, disappeared without a trace, and the benevolent master was right, the Yankee would not have rescued them at all......

Sheffield laughed and said, "I left your two black friends alive because I needed them to be slaves to help me make money!" I have shown kindness to the black slaves on my plantation because they themselves are part of my property! As long as you are diligent and diligent, I won't beat them, but if your physical strength can't catch up with the black slaves, it's okay, you're not my slave, if you don't kill you, will I still support you? ”

Sheffield shook off Thomas, who was hugging his thighs, and gestured to Raidon and said, "Call all the black slaves on the plantation to me, add an extra bowl of rice to them at noon, and the task in the morning is to beat Thomas to death with his fists!" ”

"No, merciful master, I can be your slave too!" As soon as Thomas heard that Sheffield was going to let the black slaves beat him to death, and he didn't know where he got the strength to break free from the white overseers who were going to carry him away, he rushed up and grabbed Sheffield by the leg of his trousers with two steps, and he shuddered at the thought of the strong black slaves and the big fists in the casserole.

"You can't work, what use do I want from you?" Unmoved by Sheffield's gaze, some black slaves in the cotton fields were harvesting the next harvest, and when the harvest was complete, the cotton plantations would be bulldozed and waiting for the next planting. Cotton is a very high-yield crop, although it can only be planted for one season, but the harvest can be divided into several times, but this is also the last time, the last harvest Sheffield is not ready to sell the little cotton left, but is ready to change a batch of quilts for more than 200 black slaves, which can be regarded as improving the welfare of the plantation.

"I know a lot of Underground Railroad strongholds, and I can tell the benevolent master how many Yankee thieves are lurking in Louisiana!" Thomas's words drew Sheffield's attention back from the cotton field, and he began to wonder if this Yankee was of no use at all, so he looked at the northern traitor with a sigh and said, "If Adelaide were as smart as you, he wouldn't end up in the Mississippi River!" ”

"Adelaide and I have been deceived, deceived by some bad guys, and the slave problem should be solved by the state! It was the bad guys who deceived us and cost Adelaide his life! "Thomas's performance was so emotional that Sheffield really wanted to say that I killed Adelaide! But for the sake of being a traitor, he was a little embarrassed to interrupt.

"It's a pity, I really want to find an opportunity to give the black slaves a lunch meal, and the slaves on the Sheffield plantation must be branded on the left shoulder!" Sheffield said lightly, "I'm not persecuting you, you can do it without it......"

"It's okay, it's just a little pain!" Thomas hurriedly agreed that as long as he could save his life, it would be better to be branded as a slave than Adelaide sinking into the Mississippi River.

"Thomas, I kind of appreciate you now! Raidon, bring him to my house after branding...... "Sheffield didn't lose the initiative at all from beginning to end, and then he got a frightened traitor, and asked an overseer to untie the rope that bound Thomas to his wrist, and took Rice back to his house to wait.

"Rice, this is the kind of person who says he wants to liberate you, I don't think he can even liberate himself!" Sheffield commented unceremoniously, sarcastically commenting on the North, "What the North said was to save you and destroy slavery!" Actually, I can do what they call emancipation, but it's just the name of emancipating a slave. You are no longer slaves in public, but you are still doing the work of slaves, and this emancipation is still done with them? It's just a name, and I can do it too......"

Soon Thomas, who would be branded as a hard worker, was brought in, Redden pushed Thomas into the room with a smiling smile, and stood still at the door, to be honest, white slaves are rare even in the southern United States where slavery is maintained, at least he himself has not seen it in the past few years.

Sheffield was not idle while bragging with the black girl, he had already written a contract before Thomas came in, and just saw Thomas with the brand of a slave coming in, he pushed the contract in front of him and said, "I don't need you to work, I can even spend money to support you, as long as you help me do something!" ”

As a class of Southern slave owners who consider themselves to have honorably inherited the ideals of Washington, the founding father of the United States, at least one of them! Sheffield thought that there was nothing wrong with raising a white slave, and the Father of the Nation had also raised it, and two days after the American Revolutionary War began, an advertisement was placed in a town in Virginia offering a reward for the capture of ten fugitive slaves. Two of them were Negro slaves, i.e., black slaves; The other eight were white slaves, including William Webster, a middle-aged brickmaker from Scotland, and 20-year-old Thomas Pearce, a carpenter from Bristol. And the person who offered a bounty for their pursuers was the famous founding father of the United States, George Washington.

After waiting for Thomas to sign the contract, Sheffield put the scrap of paper, which was only nominally bound, into his pocket, spread out a map of Louisiana, and ordered unceremoniously, "Now tell me all the strongholds of the Underground Railroad that you know, if you lie to me!" This contract is invalid, you still sink into the Mississippi River......"

Thomas hurriedly told all the strongholds he knew, Sheffield put away the map noncommittally, "Actually, the overseer of my plantation has been following you, and every time the black slaves stolen from me come to one of your strongholds, one of your strongholds will leak, if you don't match it when the time comes?" Hmph......"

A cold snort was like a heavy blow to Thomas's heart, Sheffield looked at his watch and called Henry in, and directly gave him the stronghold that Thomas had just drawn and said, "Send this thing to Taylor Manor, I believe they have a way to inform the slave owners of other cities, this time let the Yankee see the vast sea of people in the south!" Want to run to the north? Living in a Dream ......"

From the standpoint of the proletariat, the war between the slave owners and the ugly capitalists should not be a dog-eat-dog war! Thank you for your tips, recommendations and collections!