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A man by the name of Mathis had large holdings on the road to Winnfield in 1850s. I'll call him ''Mean man Mathis. '' Years later a Dr. Hargis owned the old plantation house, so it is well known as ''Hargis House'' among the locals. Mean man Mathis had a perverted way of punishment for his slaves. An iron ring was screwed into one of the porch columns where he would tie the slave and have him beaten with a whip. Meanwhile old Mathis would rape the slave
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woman in his bedroom that was just off the porch and had one of those old high windows one could walk through.
One day he was performing his perverted
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punishment to a slave that had been chopping wood for the coming winter. Mathis' brother-in-law arrived in a carriage and witnessed the perverted act. He became so enraged that he cut the poor slave down. The slave then ran over to the wood pile grabbed his ax, ran through the open window, chased old Mathis up the stairs and chopped his head clean off. All hell broke loose! The brother-in-law had to leave the country for Europe and the slave was hung
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