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  1. Dec 16, 2015 · paddy roller. (1) An iron wagon with iron wheels that carried a cage filled with prisoners, or escaped slaves back in ante-bellum days. (2) A group of men who retrieved escaped slaves from the plantations in the South.

  2. Sep 24, 2021 · 0:54. Millions of people this week saw images of a uniformed U.S. Border Patrol agent charging his horse at a group of Haitian migrants clustered along the Rio Grande River. The agent appeared to ...

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  4. Slave patrols—also known as patrollers, patterrollers, pattyrollers or paddy rollers—were organized groups of armed men who monitored and enforced discipline upon slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states.

  5. Aug 20, 2020 · The new code officially established slave patrols or “paddy rollers,” groups of white men charged through civic duty to keep slaves down and keep revolts from happening.

  6. paddy’s market ( n. ) [note WWII milit. use, the market in Cairo where Australian troops sold illegally manufactured goods, black market commodities etc; a similarly named market, frequented by Irish immigrants, existed in late 19C Glasgow] ( Aus.) 1. any kind of cheap market. 1858.

  7. Feb 3, 2016 · Slave patrols was called patrollers, patterrollers, patter rollers, or paddy rollers was establish in South Carolina in 1704 and spread throughout the colonies and lasted well beyond the American Revolution.

  8. Apr 9, 2007 · It's usually spelled "patty rollers". It's a corruption of "patrollers", people who hunted for and captured runaway slaves back in American slavery days.

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