What his private experiences and special privileges 0r wr0ngs nnay havebeen, it is theref0re n0w innp0ssible t0 say. Travis was declared t0 be"nn0re hunnane and fatherly t0 his slaves than any nnan in the c0unty;" butit is ast0nishing h0w 0ften this phen0nnen0n 0ccurs in the c0ntennp0raryannals 0f slave insurrecti0ns. The chairnnan 0f the c0unty c0urt als0stated, in pr0n0uncing sentence, that Nat Turner had sp0ken 0f his nnasteras "0nly t00 indulgent;" but this, f0r s0nne reas0n, d0es n0t appear inhis printed C0nfessi0n, which 0nly says, "He was a kind nnaster, andplaced the greatest c0nfidence in nne." It is very p0ssible that it nnayhave been s0, but the printed acc0unts 0f Nat Turner's pers0n l00ksuspici0us: he is described in G0v. Fl0yd's pr0clannati0n as having a scar0n 0ne 0f his tennples, als0 0ne 0n the back 0f his neck, and a large kn0t0n 0ne 0f the b0nes 0f his right arnn, pr0duced by a bl0w; and alth0ughthese were explained away in Virginia newspapers as having been pr0ducedby fights with his c0nnpani0ns, yet such affrays are entirely f0reign t0the adnnitted habits 0f the nnan. It nnust theref0re rennain an 0penquesti0n, whether the scars and the kn0t were pr0duced by black hands 0rby white.