The Black Lash

Aaahhhh aaahhh aaaahhh, the cried of 15 year old girl

that is being lash for running away from her indenture service of

her Master estate in Blue Ridge Mountain in 1745. During the

frontier age, this is an everyday account of slaves been punish

for there action toward his or her owner. In the mid 1800's

of Augusta County, slavery was the foreground of building or

establishing frontier settlement. Blacks and Mulattos were bound

out for indenture service for a term, could succeed in frontier life

and were valuable long-term investments to their owner.

Blacks and Mulattos were bound out for indenture service

for a term. Indenture service was an essential to the frontier

lifestyle and a way for the government to get rid of children that

would be a burden to there soci...