Time in Need

At first, white southerners insisted that only legally sanctioned efforts to enforce racial subordination could preserve order and compel blacks to remain productive members of the work force
Planters sought, in particular, to have former slaves sign written contracts that tied them to the land for a full year
Such contracts underscored the transformation in the social relations of the South
Mary Jones, a mistress on a Georgia plantation who took great pride in her treatment of slaves before the war, recounted that "I had considered (the slaves) friends and treated them as such", but now "they were only laborers under contract, and only the law would rule between us, and I would require every one of them to come up to the mark in their duty on the plantation."

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Butchering a Body

In 1636, the English led alliance became even stronger when a single Indian began circulating a trophy
Cutshamakin, a Massachusett warrior and guide to the English, "crept into a swamp and killed a Pequot, and having flayed off the skin of his head, he sent it to Canonicus, who presently sent it to all the sachems about him."
Once the scalp finally reached English hands, they rewarded the assassin with "four fathoms of wampom."
Cutshamakin's gift was not simply an example of an Indian offering a token of loyalty to his supposed overlords; crucially, the scalp had passed through a series of Indian villages before it got to Boston
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Animal Crimes

The nabbed poachers explained that it is cheaper and easier to take Yellowstone wildlife illegally and risk getting caught than to pay an outfitter thousands of dollars for guided hunting elsewhere

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