Seventy-two years' recollections of Wisconsin

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When these Pawnee slaves had Indian masters, they were generally treated with great severity. Once the Sauks had a Pa^^ee female, and treated her so like a dog, that a Mr. Geo'ry, a trader, purchased her from foslings of humanity. A female slave owned by a Menomonee woman, while sick, was directed by her unfeeling mistress to take off her over-dress, and she then deliberately stabbed and kiUed her; and this without a cause or provocation, and not in the least attributable to liquor. It should also be mentioned, on the other hand, that Mas-caw, a Pawnee among Ihe Menomonees, was not treated or r^arded as a slave, and married a chief's daughter, and lived with them till his death, and has now a gray-headed son living; at Lake Shawanaw.
It has already been related, that Capt. De Velie, who was early killed by the Sauks at Green Bay, had a negro servant, who I presume, was a slave.    I know of but one other African slave at Green Bay, and he was a mere lad, not over half a dozen years  of  age, when purchased  by  Baptist B'runet of one Masshasho, a St. Lo-uis Indian trader, giving one hun¬ dred dollars for him.    The boy was prob-ably at times very provoking, but Mr.  Brunet was inexcusably severe in  pun¬ ishing him; he had a staple overhead in his house, to which he would tie the lad's hands,  and then whip him without mercy.    Thus things went on for about eight years, till about 180^, when Mr. Campbell, who had been a trader among the Sioux, was appointed the first American Indian Agent  at Prairie du Chien, and who in some way heard of Brunet's undue cruelty, came and took the negro -away, and what was furtlier done with him I do not know.*    About a year after,
*Hon. M. L. Martin, in his Historical Address, while admitting the species of Panis, or Pawnee slavery, adds, "it is believed that our soil was never polluted by the foot of an African slave." We could devoutly wish that this were literally true, but fear, from Mr. Grignon's state¬ ments, that it is not. In Gov. Vaudreuil's instruction to Charles De Langlade, Sept. 9, 1760, upon the surrender of Canada and its depend¬ encies to the British, he states tnat, by the articles of capitulation, the people of the North-Western settlements "may keep their negro and Pawnee slaves/' except such slaves as they may have captured from the British,—-implying, we should think, that they had some negro slaves. L^ q^ 33^