loafed and
poisoned
their
minds
against
their
former
owners.
Gerald’s
old
overseer,
Jonas
Wilkerson,
was in
charge of
the local
Bureau,
and his
assistant
was
Hilton,
Cathleen
Calvert’s
husband.
These two
industriously
spread the
rumor that
the
Southerners
and
Democrats
were just
waiting
for a good
chance to
put the
negroes
back into
slavery
and that
the
negroes’
only hope
of
escaping
this fate
was the
protection
given them
