Walter Rimm The man The Legend

I chose my post about the man that was Walter Rimm an ex-slave from Ft.Worth. He lived through the slave trade during the 1800's, with most of his encounters with slavery   as a child involved run away slaves trying to avoid what they called "patrollers" and make it to the Mexican border.

"One old fellow name John been a run-awayer for four years and de patterrollers* tries all dey tricks, but dey can't cotch him."

One run away Walter Rimm recalls more than most was John. probably for the reason of how much effort the patrollers had put in trying to catch one slave. This does seem to indicate on how animal like black people were treated with traps set to be sprung just to return what they thought of as property to the "rightful" owner.