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Pattyrollers
After Nat Turner's slave uprising in 1831, Southerners had young white men patrol the areas between plantations to prevent runaway slaves from reaching the North and freedom, and to keep local slaves from organising rebellions. The young men who performed this service came to be called "pattyrollers."
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