For a cruel man with a reputation like Nate Butler, very little is known about his early life, including his years as an indentured servant, before he earned his freedom. No photographs of him exist. He lived just outside of the town of Aberdeen in Hartford County, Maryland. But I couldn't find a specific time frame. While he cultivated his land, he had a love for money and his main source of income was the slave trade.
He would sell escaped slaves back to their masters. If you were a plantation owner in Maryland and one of your slaves went missing, Butler could bring them back to you for a price. Escaped slaves would turn to Butler for help. He would convince the slaves to stay on his property. While they thought they were safe, he would find out who they belonged to and collect the reward. Sometimes, at a profit.
Butler became a very wealthy man as he gained notoriety amongst the locals. Butler was feared by slaves. When a slave managed to escape their plantations, they would usually fall into Butler’s hands and end up working in even tougher conditions. Other slave traders, as well as the white plantation owners, thought him be too tough and cruel.
He became so feared by slaves that they tried to kill him on several occasions, but no one succeeded. Details about Butler and what became of him is unknown.
It becomes a full time job sifting through all of the opinions and emotion injected by hack journalists. They take a very limited amount of information and a few community college hours later become smart enough to get the gist, so they fluff it up with imagination so it appears to fit this anti-white narrative.
I cross reference everything. Most online sources will intentionally misdirect your attention if they're covering a story and they don't like where their research lead's. Would you like an example? Click (here). This is the only source that begins the story by stating "Nat Butler, of Aberdeen, Maryland, was known to help runaways, providing them with a hiding place while they waited to escape North.
The truth is, that multiple other sources, including this lying, racist, ovarian demon a few short sentences later, would also confirm that Nate would only tell slaves that, to encourage them to run away. He was feared, he was not known to help anyone but himself. But if you don't skim past the headline and compare sources, how would you know for sure? Prove me wrong.
Sincerely,
Lonnie T. Locke LMT