Paddyrollers, or "padderrollers" for Andy McAdams, are mentioned a couple times in his narrative, both before and after the end of slavery. With their guns and whips, the paddyrollers struck fear into slaves and then into freedman into the war, beating them into submission to their white masters and superiors. | Date: Slavery and Reconstruction | Source: https://ibw21.org/editors-choice/slavery-and-the-origins-of-the-american-police-state/Download Original File
