Re: When was the Backlick Road constructed?
Posted by:
The.Overseer.
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Date: March 09, 2018 09:12PM
Venison Way Wrote:
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> The road began as a hunting path in the days of
> the Powhatan. The "lick" part refers to salt licks
> that were set out to lure deer to their deaths.
Fail...
The road is called Backlick Road because back when America was really great and we could shackle the niggers, the slaves were marched up and down that road. Back then, it was a remote enough part of the state that you could whip or "lick" the slaves' backs in order to discipline them going to and from the auctions and their destinations. The wounds would stop bleeding upon arrival, giving the slave drivers some plausible deniability to prospective buyers and or the slaves' owners who were also the slave drivers' bosses about what happened out on Backlick Road.