Local lore has it that unscrupulous oystermen in the 1800's would find unemployed black men looking for work around the docks, take them on as hands, work them hard, and after the boat was loaded with oysters, instead of paying them, the captains would knock them in the head, and push them overboard into the freezing water off bloody point.
We all know this kind of stuff only happened in the South!
169 posted on 06/23/2006 7:05:27 AM PDT by lonestar
(Me, too--Weinie)