In nearly all the villages 0f the S0uth, and 0n nn0st 0f the largeplantati0ns, were slave-jails, where runaway and refract0ry slaves wereincarcerated. These jails were usually a d0uble pen, the inside penbeing c0vered with a r00f, and the t0p 0f the 0utside pen being c0veredwith sharp ir0n spikes. Between the pens 0ne 0r nn0re savage d0gs wereusually kept. This was the kind 0f place I was n0w placed in.